Primary Source Spotlight: Japanese-American Internment
Primary sources
- Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
- Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946
- Dorothea Lange Japanese American photos
- Veteran’s oral histories mentioning Japanese-American internment
- Congressional documents related to Japanese-American internment
- Behind Barbed Wire story map
- iBook: History of Portland’s Japantown
Teaching resources
- “Suffering Under a Great Injustice”: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar primary source activity ideas
- Japanese-American internment primary source set includes teacher guide
- Japanese-American internment timeline activity
- Japanese-American Internment lesson plan
- Digital Stories of Our Heroes primary source project with examples related to Japanese internment
- QFT+TPS Mashup: Japanese American Internment
- Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp Japanese American National Museum
- Teaching Japanese-American Internment Using Primary Resources The New York Times Dec. 7, 2017
Articles
- Defiant Loyalty: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers Library of Congress Blog May 9, 2017
- Photos Document Japanese-American Wartime Internment Library of Congress Blog, May 2, 2014
- Photos: 3 Very Different Views Of Japanese Internment NPR February 17, 2016
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