Primary Sources - U.S. History Digital Collections

Offers primary sources such as letters, diaries, reports, photographs, and related records documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Photographs and documents related to World War II internment camps

Hundreds of primary sources on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, with thematic galleries and access to photographs, documents, oral histories, and related resources.

More than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files documenting the Korean experience in America.

Digitized issues of Seattle’s Japanese American newspapers including The North American Times Hokubei JijiJ and The North American Post documenting community life from 1902 onward.

Documents the Punjabi and Sikh diaspora in California from the 1890s to the present through more than a thousand digitized photographs films letters newspapers songs and oral histories with curated exhibits classroom tools and a women’s gallery.

Offers searchable images and texts documenting refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam after 1975 and the development of Southeast Asian American communities, including about 1,500 images and 4,000 pages of text.

Contains materials documenting more than 250 years of South Asian American history through a searchable digital repository, exhibits, storytelling projects, and educator resources.