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EXTENSION ACTIVITY: Students can compare and contrast the Chinese worker experience building the transcontinental railroad with another immigrant group experience. Students could do more research into ...
In June, President Donald Trump appeared to give Chinese students in the U.S. a reprieve when he announced that they would ...
The closing of the cannery in 1957 struck a death blow to Ashcroft’s Chinatown, and one by one the stores closed and were ...
The panel memorializes the Chinese Missoulians that have lain for over a century in unmarked graves beneath the Lower Rattlesnake neighborhood.
The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one particular ethnic group. As Michael Luo’s “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging and the Epic Story of the ...
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month research led us back to one of the longest tenured Chinese American families in Austin.
The very first Chinese laundry in the United States opened in 1851, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, on the corner of Washington and Grant streets. That place, with a “Wash’ng and Iron’ng” sign, is long ...
As the incoming Trump administration threatens Chinese immigrants with deportation, it is urgent to draw the lessons from the ugly history of Chinese Exclusion in the 19th century. A recent ...
In what's now Wyoming and Oregon, white men massacred dozens of Chinese laborers. So Chinese immigrants left the U.S. in large numbers, and of course, there were very few new Chinese migrants.
Donald Trump promises to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants once he returns to the White House. If he follows through, the scale of it... The 'Chinese Exclusion Era' shows how Trump's mass ...
The History Colorado Center's exhibit "Where is Denver's Chinatown?" looks at the lost Chinatown and the devastating effects of the 1880 anti-Chinese riot.