As Texas leaders work to update the state’s social studies curriculum standards, known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS, one proposed change is the approval of a high school ...

But it wasn’t until he started studying history and ethnomusicology for a career in academia that he came across American musicians who looked like him. Saporiti’s mother is an immigrant who fled war ...

Momentum for requiring instruction of Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 curriculum nationwide continues to grow—including in states like Florida where legislation restricts how ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

After a surge of anti-Asian incidents during the COVID pandemic, students, parents and advocates on Long Island are calling for schools to include more Asian American history in classrooms. Supporters ...

Part one: Beginnings : Asians in the Americas. Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part two: The making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian ...

MIAMI -- Asian-American history will be part of the state's school curriculum for the first time in Florida. The requirement was contained in a bill that was recently signed into lawy by Gov. Ron ...

When Anita Chaiprasert looks back on what she's learned in school, she only remembers a handful of times when Asian American history was mentioned. Chaiprasert said she vaguely recalled being taught ...

Established in 2021 by Professor Craig N. Canning, Professor of East Asian History at William and Mary (1973-2012) and his wife Nancy, the Canning Award supports undergraduate and graduate students in ...

It's time to acknowledge that we Americans know very little about Latin American history. Even what we learn at the university level tends to center on Europe's invasion of the Americas as the ...

Asian studies students gain unique insight into a region of the world that is highly important in world politics, business and the arts. A BA in Asian studies complements the study of history, ...