The Fourth of July Hmong Freedom Celebration, known simply by attendees as J4, is the largest gathering of Hmong people in the United States. Since the late 1970s, tens of thousands of Hmong from across the United States and the world gather in St. Paul, Minnesota for the annual summer sports and culture festival.
Category Archive: oral history
With nurses in New York City out on strike, we look back at our December 2020 interview with Tanya Martinez.
In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.
I didn’t know what soccer was actually. I was coming home from school one day and saw a poster on the wall that they were having tryouts. I told my mom that I wanted to try out.
We got to talk to the great Morna Gerrard, the librarian for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality collections at […]
Fannin County, Georgia is a rapidly changing place. The best-known town in the county is Blue Ridge, which […]
We were delighted to see one of the first posts in our Unofficial Archives series featured on the […]
Quilting, for my family, is all but a lost art, passed down from the matriarch of each family […]