Japanese American internment: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Among the many books examining this period of American history are Lawson Fusao Inada (ed.), Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (2000), a collection of personal stories; Wendy Ng, Japanese American Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide (2002); Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (2001); Roger Daniels, Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (1993); Robert Harvey, Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II (2003); and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, with a new afterword (2007, originally published in 1973).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: The National WWII Museum - Redress and Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration. | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - Japanese American Internment, 19421946. | Jan 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The internment of Japanese Americans. | Nov 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Densho Encyclopedia - Introduction to WWII Incarceration. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Japanese internment. | Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Digital Collections - Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946. | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Archives - Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II. | Feb 15, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian Institution - The American Experience in the Classroom - Japanese American Internment. | Sep 15, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | May 01, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - A brief history of Japanese American Relocation during World War II. | Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Landscapes of Japanese American Internment. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - World War II Japanese American Internment. | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Japanese American Life During Internment. | Aug 29, 2023 | ||
| Changed the location of Manzanar from “southern California” to “east-central California.” | Jul 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Japanese American Wartime Incarceration: Examining the Scope of Racial Trauma. | May 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Japanese Internment Camps: America's Great Mistake. | Apr 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - Japanese American Relocation. | Dec 12, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 11, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. History - Japanese-American Internment. | Mar 04, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - Redress and Reparations for Japanese American Incarceration. | Oct 18, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 03, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Nov 18, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S History - Japanese-American Internment. | Apr 09, 2020 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Jan 22, 2020 | ||
| Added descriptions of contentious nomenclature. | Apr 17, 2019 | ||
| Attributed photo to Dorothea Lange. | Jul 18, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 19, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The American Museum of Natural History - Life in a WWII Japanese-American Internment Camp. | Aug 09, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Japanese Internment. | Sep 14, 2014 | ||
| New bibliography added. | May 09, 2014 | ||
| New article added. | May 09, 2014 |
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