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English 210: When The Emperor Was Divine (Japanese American Internment Resources): Research

Ebooks

The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II by John Davenport
By Order of the President by Greg Robinson
Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans remember their World War II incarceration by Stephen S. Fugita; Marilyn Fernandez
Japanese Americans : from relocation to redress
Confinement and Ethnicity: an overview of World War II Japanese American relocation sites by Jeffrey F. Burton; Mary M. Farrell; Tetsuden Kashima (Foreword by); Richard W. Lord
In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American struggle for equality by Eileen Tamura
Desert Exile: the uprooting of a Japanese American family by Yoshiko Uchida; Traise Yamamoto (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
And Justice for All: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps by John Tateishi; Roger Daniels (Foreword by)
Experiences of Japanese American Women During and after World War II by Precious Yamaguchi
ISBN: 9780739192436

Online Reference Sources

History Database Center
Use this online encyclopedia collection to find background information.
Example search: Japanese American relocation and internment during World War II
Densho Encylopedia
A free on-line resource about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience. Part of the larger Densho Japanese American Legacy Project.

Print Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment by Gary Y. Okihiro (Editor)
Call Number: R 940.5317 E564
World War II by Spencer C. Tucker (Editor)
Call Number: R 940.5303 E563, 2016
Japanese Americans by Jonathan H. X. Lee (Editor); Dean Ryuta Adachi
Call Number: R 973.04956 J3577
The Home Front Encyclopedia by James D. Ciment (Editor); Mary Hickey; Jason Kniser; Thaddeus Russell (Editor)
Call Number: R 940.3 H765
The Encyclopedia of World War II by Spencer C. Tucker (Editor); Priscilla Mary Roberts (Editor); Allan R. Millett (Foreword by)
Call Number: R 940.5303 E563

Historical Newspapers

Topaz Times (1942-1945)
This was the newspaper produced at camp. It has limited searching capability. View the Densho Encyclopedia article
for background and historical information regarding the publication of the Topaz Times.
Japanese Internment Camps articles
A selection of historical newspaper articles about Japanese American Internment. From the America's Historical Newspapers database.
Evacuation & Internment of San Francisco Japanese Americans
Selected digitized articles from the The San Francisco News during the relocation and internment period.

Websites

Ansel Adam's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar -
A Library of Congress, American Memory website.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project - Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives - A website maintained by the University of California.

Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II - A National Archives website.

Topaz Museum Digital Archive