Examines the events which led to the evacuation of Japanese-Americans in World War II, exposing the influential figures who were responsible for their confinement
... 2013); and Matthew L. Basso, Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). 78. “Council Meeting Minutes, February 2, 1942,” folder— Council Meetings, ...
In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three...
American Concentration Camps: May, 1942
For a floor plan, elevations, and sections of a Jerome barracks apartment building, see Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord, Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American ...
Inside America's Concentration Camps is an investigative history of concentration camps in the U.S. It is based on interviews and extensive research.
Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.
This book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans during the last six decades. It compares attempts by...
Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment...
" In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps.
Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century ...