Glosser HIST 208 Spring 2023: Encyclopedias

With overview essays and more than 400 A-Z entries, this exhaustive encyclopedia documents the history of Asians in America from earliest contact to the present day.

A six-volume work that explores the experience of Asian immigrants and the communities which they and their descendants have created in the United States.

A four volume reference work; two volumes are dedicated to primary documents.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the lives of notable Asian American writers in all genres, as well as synopses and analyses of their works.

Among the documents are letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs; many have never been published before or have been translated into English for the first time.

Written under the auspices of the Japanese American National Museum - the leading repository of material on Japanese American history - the text, in addition to an A-to-Z encyclopedia section, also includes an enlightening overview by noted Asian American studies scholar Gary Okihiro, a detailed chronology of major events in Japanese American history, and an extensive bibliography of the best sources for further research.

This work provides a comprehensive, accessible treatment of the events of Japanese American internment that includes topical, event, and biographical entries; a chronology and comprehensive bibliography; and primary documents.

A reference guide to Oregon that includes information about the state's history, geography, politics, state services, historic landmarks, and constitution. Extensive entries on Chinese and Japanese Americans in Oregon.