From the Library of Congress (LOC) comes Behind Barbed Wire, a story map featuring the LOC's collection of newspapers that were produced by Japanese-Americans who were relocated to internment camps during World War Two. This digital exhibit also uses maps and numerous photos by Ansel Adams to show where the internment camps were located and to tell the story of everyday life in the camps. Here,...

The Densho Digital Repository documents the grave acts of racism and deprivation of civil liberties inflicted against Japanese Americans during World War II. In doing so, the project hopes to instill in viewers a responsibility to continue to work towards equality. "Densho" means "to pass on to the next generation," and the archive focuses on preserving firsthand accounts, inviting users to "hear...

In the four years between 1942 and 1946, the United States government "evacuated" and interned more than 120,000 Japanese American citizens as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. The U.S. government has since admitted that there was little evidence for the disloyalty of the internees, and that the entire affair was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure...

Between 1942 and 1945, thousands of Japanese Americans - regardless of citizenship - were evacuated from their homes and relocated to interment camps across the country, by order of the U.S. Government. This lesson is part of the Teaching with Documents series at the National Archives and offers educators many helpful tools to teach about Executive Order 9066 and the lived experience of Japanese...