Web Links

Cultural Projects:

Modern American Poetry Home Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku

history and photographs

Museum and Library Exhibits:

The Japanese American Experience

an exhibition in the Museum of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies; this Internet publication has been supported by a grant from The Equitable Foundation

Japanese American Resource Library and Oral History Project

a good bibliography page for sources and fiction books

University of Washington Libraries Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives

materials Related to the Japanese American incarceration

Cabrillo College Library

the Japanese Internment Camps Remembered

Videos:

The resisters

the on-line news center for a new PBS documentary, with many good links and source materials

Companion Web site to "Rabbit in the Moon,"

a documentary about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Memorials:

Japanese American Internment Memorial

Location: East Plaza (located on South 2nd and San Carlos). Robert Peckham Federal Building. 280 S. First Street, San Jose, CA

Other Curriculum:

Asian American (Legal) History Timeline

by Prof. Jerry Kang, UCLA School of Law

20th Anniversary of Civil Liberties Act @ Anti Defamation League

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Home

When Military Necessity Overrides Constitutional Guarantees: The Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Jay M. Brown

A History of the Japanese-American Internment

A History of Japanese Americans in California:

Immigration, Settlement, Organizations/Religion, Discrimination, World War II Incarceration

A Short Chronology of Japanese American History

Adapted from Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present.  Edited by Brian Niiya (New York: Facts-on-File, 1993).

History of the Japanese - U.S. Relationship

An Excerpt From: The LegiSchool Project. The Japanese- American Internment During WWII:  Discussion of Civil liberties Then and Now. California State Capitol, May 2, 2000. A Civic Education Collaboration between California State University, Sacramento and the California State Legislature  Kolleen Ostgaard, Chris Smart, Tom McGuire, Madeline Lanz, Dr. Timothy A. Hodson  (Senate Publication Number 1028-S, pp. 30-34)

Timeline: Trends in Asian Immigration: Governmental Responses and Private Reactions