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Japanese American InternmentYou must cite these sources if you use information from them. Links to citation tools are on the Library home page.
Barbed Wire to Battlefields -- Japanese American experience in WWII
online museum exhibit by the National WWII museum in New Orleans. Children of the Camp--Companion site to the PBS documentary. Be sure to explore ALL the links for commentary, documents, photos and more. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 49-- PDF versions of the original orders posted by General DeWitt "evacuating" citizens of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Pages 14-17 contain the actual flyers posted informing citizens of the "evacuation". Digital Public Library of America--Japanese American Internment photos, posters, letters and more relating to Japanese American Internment Digital Public Library of America--Prisoners at Home photos etc tell the stories of everyday lives in the camps. Executive Order 9066--PDF version of the original document signed by President Franklin authorizing eventual internment. Housed in the National Archives. Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)--contains thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American internment Japanese American War Memorial documentary videos and history Manzanar-- US Parks Service--website for the National Park site Photos and history Manzanar -- US Parks Service-- Virtual Museum Videos, audio, photos and more about the daily life in the camps Minidoka Camp-- US Parks Service website for the National Park site Minidoka Camp-- US Parks Service list of websites A More Perfect Union Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution, Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Primary source documents. National Archives--Japanese relocation and Internment collection of web resources National Japanese American Memorial information and photos of the memorial NY Times: Teaching Japanese-American Internment Using Primary Resources Links to contemporary articles in the NY Times and other newspapers that reported on Internment issues. Topaz Camp brief history of the camp located in Utah World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans, article in The Atlantic by Alan Taylor with photos |