Electronic Resources 
Related to the Japanese American Relocation

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The following is a representative selection of websites related to the evacuation and internment. Many of these sites offer more links to online resources.
 
Citations include site address (URL), date published when available, date last checked and annotations describing the resource. Annotations are enclosed in brackets [].
This page published 10 June 2005 and modified 22 August 2005.

Student Relocation

“Interrupted Lives: Japanese American Students at the University of Washington, 1941-1942.” 29 March 2004. University of Washington Libraries. 1 Nov. 2004. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/interrupted_lives/index.shtml
[“This project tells the story of a university and its students — a story of institutional perseverance and individual courage.”]

General

"Asian American Collection." 10 May 2004. Michigan State University Libraries Digital Collections. 3 May 2005.     http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=18 [Tracing the history of Asian Americans in the   U.S., collection materials include information about the regulation of Chinese immigration in the late 19th  century and, illustrated by impressive photographs, the internment of more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry during the World War II.]

Burton, Jeffrey F. “Confinement and Ethnicity: an Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.” 1 Sept. 2000. Western Archaeological and Conservation Center of the National Park Service. 26 Oct. 2004. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/index.htm [OXY, contains digital resources]

“Camp Harmony Exhibit.” 18 Aug. 2004. University of Washington Libraries. 26 Oct.2004. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/index.html [Documents, letters and photographs from the Puyallup Assembly Center, a Japanese-American internment camp.]

Densho:The Japanese American Legacy Project. http://www.densho.org/ [A comprehensive site of oral history and learning center: "Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all."]

Estes, Donald H. and Matthew T. Estes. “Further and Further Away: The Relocation of San Diego’s Nikkei Community-1942.” Journal of San Diego History. 28 Oct. 2004. http://sandiegohistory.org/journal/93spring/further.htm  [The relocation of San Diego’s nikkei community.]

“Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project.” 12 Oct. 1999. Northwest College. 26 Oct. 2004.  http://chem.nwc.cc.wy.us/HMDP/homepage.htm [The Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project features documents and photographs from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center Collection at the John Taggart Hinckley Library at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.]

“Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project.” 19 Aug. 2004. University of Washington Libraries. 26 Oct. 2004. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/ [The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.]

Japanese American National Museum. http://www.janm.org/ ["The Japanese American National Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated to sharing the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry."]

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives. (JARDA) 22 August 2005. http://jarda.cdlib.org/
[JARDA is a digital "thematic collection" within the Online Archive of California documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. Curators, archivists, and librarians from ten participating OAC contributing institutions selected a broad range of primary sources to be digitized, including photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories. Over 10,000 digital images have been created complemented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories. These materials are described and inventoried in 28 different online guides or "finding aids."]

Kimura, Erin. “Japanese American Internment Experience On-Line Exhibit.” Santa Clara University. 22 August 2004. http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/exhibit1.html  [This online exhibit, also on permanent display at the Japanese American Resource Center in San Jose, California's Japantown, depicts the internment camp life of  local Santa Clara Valley Japanese Americans who were interned.]

---. “Japanese American Internment Memorial.” Santa Clara University. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/memorial.html [A website dedicated to the bronze panoramic memorial that stands 5 feet high and re-tells the history of Japanese Americans during World War II.]

---. “Maps of Japanese American Internment Camps.” Santa Clara University. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/map.html [Maps of (Amache, Colorado), (Heart Mountain, Wyoming), (Manzanar, California), (Poston, Arizona), (Topaz, Utah), (Gila River, Arizona), (Jerome Arkansas), (Minidoka, Idaho), (Rohwer, Arkansas), and (Tule Lake, California).]

---. “The Assembly Centers: Temporary Internment Camps.” Santa Clara University. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/santa.html [Pictures of the various assembly centers. Contains digital images]

Kozak, Dan. “When Americans Were Treated as Traitors.” 13 April 1994. Palo Alto Online. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news_features/centennial/1940SB.php [While World War II affected the Palo Alto area in many ways, no group of people were as affected or hurt by the war as local nisei, or Japanese-Americans.]

“Manzanar Awareness Project.” Porterville College. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.pc.cc.ca.us/manzanar/  [During much of World War II, Manzanar became the home of many Japanese Americans.]

“Manzanar: National Historic Site.” National Park Service. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.nps.gov/manz/ [Information about Manzanar National Historic Site as presented by the National Park Service.]

“Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet for America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience.” Japanese American National Museum. 1 Nov. 2004. http://www.janm.org/nrc/accmass.php

“Remembering Manzanar.” Liverpool Middle School. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.lm.liverpool.k12.ny.us/Whacked/Manzanar1/remember.htm [Information about and links relating to Manzanar War Relocation Camp.]

“War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946.” Through Our Parents’ Eyes: History and Culture of Southern Arizona. 28 Oct. 2004. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html [This Exhibit features images from approximately forty photographs taken for the War Relocation Authority and vividly depicts life in Arizona's two camps. Contains digital images]

“War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945.” 2004. Online Archive of California. 28 Oct. 2004. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0 [The collection contains approximately 7000 photographs and 317 Kodachrome slides which have been arranged into 18 series. Series 1-6 and 8-11 document day-to-day life and activities in individual relocation centers in California, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas as captured by WRA photographers. The remaining series cover pre-evacuation activities in California only; relocation of evacuees in various states; assembly centers in California; and resettlement activities, primarily in California cities. It is important to note that the photograph collection, as the official documentation of the WRA, reflects the point of view that the WRA wanted to present to the citizens of the United States during World War II. Contains digital images]

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (NARA) 22 August 2005. http://www.archives.gov/ [NARA preserves documents created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government. About 1%-3% of all are selected to be preserved for legal and historical reasons. NARA offers online access to historical documents and to records. It is the most complete file of record material from the War Relocation Authority Washington office, the relocation centers, and the field offices. Collections can be searched using the  Archival Research Catalog (ARC)  http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/. ]