Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month and this site showcases historic properties listed in the National Register and National Park units highlighting important aspects of the Asian and Pacific experience in America. Join the National Register in commemorating just a few of the places where Asian and Pacific people have made history.

Likinlulem, wall under road fill Photograph by F. Beardsley, courtesy of Micrnesia Historic Preservation Office

Likinlulem
Federated States of Micronesia
Likinlulem is an exceptional site in the archeological record of the island of Kosrae, in the Federated States of Micronesia. It was continually occupied from at least AD 1200 to 1600, a period of great importance in the traditional history of the island.

Bromley Farm -- Koizuma Hishinuma Farm
Brighton, Colorado

Immigrants arriving at the Angel Island Immigration Station, c. 1916--one of the sites highlighted in our Early History of the California Coast travel itinerary Photo courtesy of California State Parks

Travel Itineraries

Learn more about the Angel Island Immigration Station, featured in our Early History of the California Coast and World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area travel itineraries and our 1999 Asian-Pacific Heritage Month feature.

Visit Seattle's International District (Chinatown), which combines Asian and Western architectural traditions into a uniquely American neighborhood.

Teaching with Historic Places

This program offers a series of award-winning lesson plans that use places listed in the National Register to enliven the study of history, social studies, and geography. TwHP has ready-to-use lesson plans, available for free downloading, that examine important aspects of Asian-Pacific history. Teaching with Historic Places Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Feature.

Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California
Understand the experience of early Asian immigrants and the obstacles they encountered as they struggled to make a living and find a place in American society.

The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice
Learn what led the U.S. government to confine nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in remote areas of the country during World War II.

Pacific Islander Heritage
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
(Learn about the people, legends, landscapes and footprints at the park's History & Culture section)
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
American Memorial Park
Kalaupapa National Historical Park
National Park of American Samoa
Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park
Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site
War in the Pacific National Historical Park

Asian American Heritage
Manzanar National Historic Site
Minidoka Internment National Monument
Jun Fujita Cabin at Voyageurs National Park

Asian Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Asian Heritage
The National Park Service's Cultural Diversity Program has recently released, Asian Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Asian Heritage, which examines Asia cultural heritage found in the American Built environment and its interpretation within NPS cultural resources programs. The publication is available in print and in PDF format.

A new publication describing the 35 historic places listed in the National Register in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands is coming soon. It will be available in English, Japanese and Korean versions. Check for availability with the Northern Marianas Historic Preservation Office online.

Presidential Proclamation: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2008

Federal Asian Pacific American Heritage Council was formed in 1985 to promote equal opportunity and cultural diversity for Asian Pacific American in the Federal and Washington, D.C. government.

Chinese American Museum is the first such museum in Southern California dedicated to the Chinese American experience and history in this region.

Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California, is a publication of the California Parks and Recreation Department, which contains valuable information on the experience of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in the state.

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
In 1942, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes in California, western Oregon and Washington, and southern Arizona in the single largest forced relocation in U.S. history. Many would spend the next 3 years in one of ten "relocation centers" across the country run by the newly-formed War Relocation Authority (WRA.) This report provides an overview of the physical remains left at the sites of the Japanese American relocation. The main focus is on the architectural remnants, the archeological features, and the artifacts remaining at the relocation centers where Japanese Americans were held during World War II.

"CRM" is the flagship publication of the NPS Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnership Programs and contains articles on the full range of cultural resources management and preservation topics. The following issues deal directly with questions regarding Asian and Pacific Islands cultural resources.

Pacific Preservation
Another View from Hawai'i
Approaches to Heritage: Hawaiian and Pacific Perspectives on Preservation
Preservation in the Pacific Basin
Diversity and Cultural Resources

National Register Information System
Since its inception in 1966, more than 80,000 properties have been listed in the National Register. Together these files hold information on more than 1.4 million individual resources--buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects--and therefore provide a link to the country's heritage at the national, state, and local levels. Search by name, location, agency, or theme to locate National Register properties associated with Asian-Pacific history.

Library of Congress:
Built in America (HABS/HAER/HALS)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, landscape and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies, including sites related to Asian-Pacific history and culture. Searches on keywords like "Japanese," "Chinese," or "World War II" will provide information on an array of associated sites. Most of the site records have publication-quality drawings, photographs and historical data. Of special interest are the following properties: the Chee Kung Tong Society in Hawaii, the Joe Shoong Chinese School, and the Chinese Joss House in California.

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center. Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography, and includes not only numerous portraits, but also views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities.

Asian Liver Center at Stanford University is the first non-profit organization in the United States that addresses the high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians and Asian-Americans. They sponsor many events, inlcuding a 5K walk/run in Golden Gate Park.

California Office of Historic Preservation preserves and enhances California's irreplaceable historic heritage as a matter of public interest so that its vital legacy of cultural, educational, recreational, aesthetic, economic, social and environmental benefits will be maintained and enriched for present and future generations.

Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division works to preserve and sustain reminders of earlier times which link the past to the present.

Oregon State Historic Preservation Office administer programs for the protection of the state's significant historic and prehistoric resources

Asian-Pacific Heritage Month 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 (special Micronesia feature), 2000, and 1999 For more information about Asian-Pacific properties listed in the National Register, please visit these past Asian-Pacific Heritage Month features.

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