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East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
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Japanese Internment
See also resources on other aspects of the history of Japanese Americans.
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Children of the Camps Companion site to a PBS documentary on the Japanese American WWII internment camp experience
Confinement & Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites A report from the Western Archaeological & Conservation Center Publications in Anthropology series, with brief history, bibliographical references, & architectural drawings & photos
Conscience & the Constitution Companion site to PBS documentary on 63 Japanese Americans who stood trial in 1944 for resisting the draft in "the largest organized resistance to incarceration"
Densho: The Japanese-American Legacy Project Causes of the incarceration; civil rights & internment; the the Densho Digital Archive with over 110 interviews & about 980 historic photos & documents; other resources
Evacuation & Internment of San Francisco Japanese - 1942 "reports of FBI & police sweeps, & the various proclamations, plans - & restrictions to civil liberties," carried almost daily by San Francisco News
Face to Face "Stores from the Aftermath of Infamy": experiences of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor & Arab & Muslim Americans after Sept. 11
Family Album Project An exhibition of pictures taken by internees at American & Canadian camps
Further & Further Away: The Relocation of San Diego's Nikkei Community, 1942 An article from The Journal of San Diego History (Winter-Spring 1993)
Granada Japanese Internment Camp Colorado State Archives' site with history & photographs
Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project "documents & photographs from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center Collection at the John Taggart Hinckley Library"
Internment of Japanese Americans Vernellia R. Randall's compilation of statutes, cases, legislative history & other documents, law review & other articles, & links
Content-Rich Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project Access to University of Washington Libraries' holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans: archival guides & inventories; virtual exhibit on Camp Harmony; Japanese Canadian internment
The Japanese American Experience in World War II: Telling the Story of a Forgotten Chapter in Arkansas History "multi-media project [to be launched by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock] ... about the legacy of Jerome & Rohwer, the Arkansas camps"
Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946 A National Archives and Record Administration data file
Japanese American Internment An Asia Society special report (October 17, 2001): Japanese American Responses to the Treatment of Muslim Americans after terrorist attacks of 9/11/01; multimedia Resources; primary Documents; general resources; links to organizations
The Japanese American Internment An extensive list of articles & links, with timeline, glossary, & gallery
Japanese American Internment Curriculum From National Japanese American Historical Society, lesson plans for K-12 teachers with related documents & links
Japanese-American Internment in WWII Photographs University of Utah exhibition of photographs from camps at Tule Lake & Topaz
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive "collection of 222 photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection ... [providing] a glimpse into the lives of Japanese immigrants and native born Japanese Americans (a.k.a. Nisei) residing in California from 1921 to 1958"
Content-Rich Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) A California Digital Library thematic collection providing a gateway to primary sources held by various California repositories
Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WW II Arkansas Timeline; educational materials; 360 degree panoramic view of the campsites; scrap book of archive photos; recent press articles; posters; maps; links
Manzanar National Historic Site Information & newsletter about the best preserved of the ten internment camps
Masumi Hayashi Photography: American Concentration Camps "panoramic photo collages [showing] the remnants of sites of Japanese American Internment camps during World War II"
Content-Rich A More Perfect Union A Smithsonian online exhibit on Japanese Americans & the Constitution, with interactive galleries, collection search, & resources
National Japanese American Memorial Foundation Foundation for the war & civil rights memorial in Washington D.C. that will "honor the loyalty & courage of Japanese Americans during World War II"
Portraits of Manzanar Photos from the Ansel Adams Library of Congress Archives & other sources, with text excerpts from Manzanar by John Armor & Peter Wright
Rabbit in the Moon Companion site to Emiko Omori's documentary about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
Redwood City Remembers: Japanese Americans in Redwood City Part of Redwood City Public Library project to "preserve the history of the Japanese-American community": life before relocation; internment; timeline; archive of correspondence between local banker J. Elmer Morrish & interned Japanese-Americans; multimedia
Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar "side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives & his 209 photographic prints," along with a digitized version of his 1944 book Born Free & Equal
Topaz Camp History of the internment camp in Utah
Content-Rich War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation & Resettlement Collection of about 7000 photographic prints, deposited at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley: digital images in medium & high resolution
The War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear was Stronger than Justice A lesson plan from the U.S. National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places program
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