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Asian Americans

The Astonishing Story of the Men Who Built the Railroad

They were young men with dreams who began their lives in America building the Transcontinental Railroad. They blasted through mountains of granite and endured brutal conditions to lay tracks that connected the Pacific to the Atlantic. Some, like Lee Wong Sang, became forebearers of Asian American families that thrive to this day.

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At the turn of the new millennium, the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided.
Generation Rising
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During a time of war, a young generation fights for equality and claim a new identity.
Good Americans
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Asian Americans fight for equality and expand the definition of Asian American.
A Question of Loyalty
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An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands.
Breaking Ground
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In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive and adapt to life in America
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