Inspiring Asian American awareness through archival research: A Gonzaga case study.

The author describes the creation of an assignment that combined physical and digital resources for an archival journey into Japanese American incarceration and internment for the first Asian American Politics seminar offered at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. The author explains how the assignment worked for students by engaging them with the library, consulting with liaison librarian, reevaluation of archives and college libraries and research agenda development.