IHI is partnering with Antiracist APUSH to adapt immigrant history lesson plans for the AP U.S. History curriculum! All lesson plans and activities will be fully aligned to AP standards. The first lesson plan, on Chinese labor and the transcontinental railroad, is now available and can be downloaded here.

The purpose of Antiracist APUSH is to help students identify and expose the racist policies that have led to the deplorable racial disparities in American society. This is achieved by exposing students to the research of leading professional historians. As Antiracist APUSH's founder, AP U.S. History teacher Matt Vriesman, notes: "Much structural change and healing is needed. As history teachers, we have an immense responsibility to confront racism and call it what it is."

The first lesson plan is aligned with AP U.S. History topic 6.8 (Immigration in the Gilded Age) and topic 6.2 (Westward Expansion). includes a full slide deck, lesson plan, and activities for students to practice document-based analysis and thesis-writing skills. Download the materials here.

Additional lesson plans will be coming out soon!  

Immigrant History Initiative's innovative facilitation guide, Empathy during COVID, has been featured by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's publication, Usable Knowledge! Our facilitation guide empowers educators to use principles of restorative justice, including non-hierarchical dialogue and anti-racist relationship-building, to lead powerful conversations around race, anti-Asian discrimination, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard Graduate School of Education interviewed IHI Co-Founders Kathy Lu and Julia Wang, as well as our guest restorative justice expert, Sarah Appelbaum, on key strategies to tackle today's troubling racial dynamics.

Read the Usable Knowledge article, "Combatting Anti-Asian Racism," here.

​We at the Immigrant History Initiative are heartbroken by the surge of anti-Asian attacks in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. This graphic explains the most troubling aspects of these attacks.

Attacks against Asian Americans reveal a complete lack of awareness for Asian American history and identity, and the integral role Asian Americans have played in the making of America. In light of the resurgence of xenophobia, hatred, and racism, we will be posting weekly mini-lessons to this page to educate the public about Asian American history and our community's deep roots in this country.

Our first video will be posted TOMORROW, Tuesday (4/7) at 5 PM! Please share our weekly mini-lessons to your own communities to combat the anti-Asian sentiment. Other lesson plans are also available for download on our website at immigranthistory.org/curriculum.

Stay tuned, stay informed, and stay healthy!

​We are excited to announce a new project to produce curriculum for the upcoming PBS series, The Asian Americans.
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The Asian Americans series is designed to engage the American public about the evolving identity, contributions, and challenges experienced by the nation’s fastest growing racial group. We will help develop lesson plans that accompany the PBS episodes for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. The Asian Americans is scheduled to begin airing May 2020.

For API Heritage Month, NBC Asian America profiled the Immigrant History Initiative and other groundbreaking organizations across the country that are passionate about “writing Asian American stories back into history books.” Read about the innovative projects spearheaded by IHI and our allies in the article here.
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Advocates all around America have been fighting to get these marginalized narratives into schools for years, and we are making new strides every day. To support our efforts to empower communities through knowledge, consider making a donation!