Lives of Notable Asian Americans: Business, Politics, Science. The Asian American Experience. The lives of 12 Asian Americans prominent in business, politics, or science are profiled for young readers. Included are biographical sketches of: (1) Elli......
History is not a morality tale — teach accordingly Re “For Asian students, US history a sore subject”: For all its noble intentions, the article falls into the trap of expecting — even demanding — that history generate uplifting ethno-racial narratives. Whether one conceives of history as...
Often regarded as the greatest second baseman in history, Joe Morgan (September 19, 1943-October 11, 2020) was a key to the Cincinnati Reds' dominance of the National League in the 1970s, when they won two World Series championships. Morgan's tiebreaking single with two outs in the ninth...
Other notable words: chiweenie, hate-watch, microcredit, neoadjuvant, self-care, schnoodle Although in use in various forms and as a movement for decades, “antifa” came into prominence as a term in the United States in 2017 as resistance to fascism spread. As a verb meaning to make bigger...
despite the spread of the game throughout the globe and the growing influence of Asian and Latin American leagues and players, is the sport that Americans still recognize as their “national pastime.” The game has long beenwoveninto the fabric of American life and identity. “It’s our game...
An engaging and well-researched non-fiction about the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man, beaten to death in Detroit at the hands of two white men, and the lenient sentence given to those who killed him. This murder and trial galvanized Asian-Americans to call for hate cr...
five years. He returns to teaching, now with a savvy business sense. One of his later projects is directing the “Billy camps” for the young boys of technical prowess who feed into the Broadway musicalBilly Elliot.Ballet for Life is very readable, and the photos are a history in ...
Horacio de la Costa (May 9, 1916 – March 20, 1977) was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines, and a recognized authority in Philippine and Asian culture and history. A brilliant writer, scholar, and historian, Horacio de la Costa was born in ...
Center in Chicago, reportedly from natural causes. She was 90 years old. As a final injustice, in her printed obituaries the press continued identifying her as the notorious "Tokyo Rose," a convicted traitor. Periodicals American History, October 2002. ...
Nazarbayev funneled some of that new wealth into a new capital, called Astana, which featured nationalist paeans to Kazakh history and to his leadership, too. The heavily restricted Kazakh press, meanwhile, reported little on the 2005 indictment in U.S. federal court in New York City of ...