Primo (Library Catalog)
- Primo This link opens in a new windowPrimo is the library's search engine for books at Watzek Library and at Pacific Northwest Academic Libraries via the Summit delivery system. It also contains audiovisual materials like DVDs and CDs as well as journal articles and ebooks.
Online Primary Sources
- Angel Island Immigration Station FoundationA growing archive of personal stories of immigrants to the Pacific Coast, from Angel Island Immigration Station detainees to those arriving today.
- Asian Americans and Seattle's Civil Rights HistoryIncluded are activist oral histories, research reports, newspaper reports, photographic collections, maps, and historical documents.
- The Chinese American Experience, 1857-1892Articles and advertisements from Harper's Weekly magazine.
- Densho ArchivesThe Densho Archives contain primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration in the early 1900s through redress in the 1980s, with a strong focus on the World War II mass incarceration.
- Digital History: Asian VoicesPrimary sources from early immigration to World War II.
- Early Chinese Immigration to the U.S.A collection from the Digital Public Library of America
- Experiencing War: Asian Pacific Americans: Going for BrokeVideo interviews and memoirs by Asian American veterans from various wars.
- Hmong Oral History ProjectThe Hmong Oral History Project works to connect the younger generations of Hmong, and the broader communities in which many Hmong live, with resources describing Hmong culture in Laos, the Secret War in Southeast Asia, and stories of the Hmong immigrant experience, facilitating greater intercultural and intergenerational understanding.
- The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital ArchiveThe National Park Service digitized 100,000 documents from the Bancroft Library to create this collection.
- Japanese American National MuseumFeatures over 60,000 unique artifacts, documents and photographs.
- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers that record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans in World War II.
- USC Digital CollectionsThe Asian-American and Pacific Islander Studies section brings together a number of digital collections, including the extensive Korean American Digital Archive.
- Pacific CitizenThe national newspapers of the Japanese American Citizens League. The digital archives go back to the 1920s.
- South Asian American Digital ArchiveSAADA digitally documents, preserves, and shares stories of South Asian Americans.
- Southeast Asian ArchiveThe Archive's collection is broad and interdisciplinary in documenting the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic life of Americans of Southeast Asian origin. Strengths include materials relating to the resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the United States, refugee camp and other experiences of the "boat people" and land refugees, and the development and progress of new ethnic communities. There is a special focus on materials pertaining to Southeast Asian Americans in Orange County and California.
- Vietnamese PortlandLewis & Clark Special Collections' archive of oral histories and digital objects from the Vietnamese community in Portland.
