Books about Asian Americans

The Man Who Taught America About Inoculation In 1706, Boston Massachusetts Puritan preacher Cotton Mather was given a human as a “gift” from his church congregation. Mather renamed him Onesimus, a Greek word for “useful.”  In 1716, Onesimus purchased half of his freedom after being permitted to work for wages outside the home, but was still required to…

When Were the Japanese Internment Camps? When we hear the term “concentration camp,” most people think of the Nazi concentration camps, which American soldiers bravely fought to end during World War II. What is lesser known is that the United States also had concentration camps on American soil at the same time: the Japanese internment…