UCLA launches free multimedia textbook on AAPI histories

The free platform combines oral histories, archival materials and interactive lessons as schools across the U.S. expand ethnic studies education.

Photo via the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched a free digital textbook designed to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories into classrooms nationwide. Developed over nearly eight years, “Foundations and Futures” combines scholarship, oral histories and interactive media into a publicly acc…