WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
Most U.S. history classes making little more than passing references to the impact Asian Americans have had on the nation or to the discrimination many faced after arriving in the United States as immigrants.
With Illinois poised to become the first state to require instruction in Asian American history in high schools, Reset checks in with a scholar on the subject for a primer.
GUEST: Erika Lee, regents professor of history and Asian American studies; director of the immigration history research center at the University of Minnesota; author of The Making Of Asian America: A History