Download or read book Eyewitness to Japanese Internment written by Jill Roesler and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through narrative nonfiction, tells about the attack on Pearl Harbor through the eyes of U.S. Navy service members, Japanese military officers, political leaders, and everyday Americans.
Download or read book Documents of Japanese American Internment written by Linda L. Ivey and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Japanese internment through the voices of those who endured removal, those who designed this notorious forced relocation, and those who witnessed the broken promise of U.S. democracy. This document collection sheds light on Japanese American internment through the voices and perspectives of those who directly experienced this event as well as those who created the policy behind it. The book provides readers with a wide range of first-hand accounts, government reports, and media responses that help readers to better understand the events of this unfortunate period of American history. Each document has contextualizing information to help students understand content they may come across in their research. This format is meant to accommodate a wide range of documents that includes a variety of viewpoints and perspectives, such as "eyewitness" pieces (personal narratives, letters; and first-hand accounts); media pieces (newspaper articles, op-ed articles, and reactions and responses to the events); and government and legislative pieces (laws, proclamations, rules, etc.). Books in this series provide a preface, introduction, guide to primary documents, and chronological organization of documents, with each document providing its own introduction, the text of the document or excerpt, and a brief list of additional readings.
Download or read book Documents of Japanese American Internment written by Linda L. Ivey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Japanese internment through the voices of those who endured removal, those who designed this notorious forced relocation, and those who witnessed the broken promise of U.S. democracy. This document collection sheds light on Japanese American internment through the voices and perspectives of those who directly experienced this event as well as those who created the policy behind it. The book provides readers with a wide range of first-hand accounts, government reports, and media responses that help readers to better understand the events of this unfortunate period of American history. Each document has contextualizing information to help students understand content they may come across in their research. This format is meant to accommodate a wide range of documents that includes a variety of viewpoints and perspectives, such as "eyewitness" pieces (personal narratives, letters; and first-hand accounts); media pieces (newspaper articles, op-ed articles, and reactions and responses to the events); and government and legislative pieces (laws, proclamations, rules, etc.). Books in this series provide a preface, introduction, guide to primary documents, and chronological organization of documents, with each document providing its own introduction, the text of the document or excerpt, and a brief list of additional readings.
Download or read book Last Witnesses written by Erica Harth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rich collection of personal histories from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds which takes readers inside the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Download or read book Documents of Japanese American Internment written by Linda L. Ivey and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decision: Why Mass Relocation and Internment? -- The Architects: The State and the Military in Constructing the Internment -- The Interned: The Removal and Internment Experience -- The Allies and the Critics: Voices from Outside the Camps Respond -- The Americans: Reflections on Citizenship, Rights, and Power in the US.
Download or read book Life As a Child in a Japanese Internment Camp written by Laura Sullivan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was a difficult, frightening time for many people around the globe. In the United States, difficulties arose after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941. People became suspicious of Japanese Americans living in the United States. As a result, many Japanese Americans were put into internment camps
Download or read book Japanese American Internment written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years later the government apologized for its unjust actions.
Download or read book Japanese American Internment Camps written by Gail Sakurai and published by Scholastic Library Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
Download or read book The Japanese Internment Camps written by Rachel A. Bailey and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese-American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.
Download or read book Captive Community written by Fern Harrington Miles and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captive Community is an eyewitness account of the experiences of five hundred American and British civilians--men, women, and children--caught in the Philippines during World War II. Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army seized them, imprisoned them, and stripped them of almost everything but their Yankee ingenuity, courage, and faith in God and country.
Download or read book Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp written by Diane Yancey and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps.
Download or read book Japanese American Internment during World War II written by Wendy Ng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-12-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and its reinterpretation in recent years, but it will also help readers to understand the Japanese American wartime experience through the words of those who were interned. Why did the U.S. government take this extraordinary action? How was the evacuation and resettlement handled? How did Japanese Americans feel on being asked to leave their homes and live in what amounted to concentration camps? How did they respond, and did they resist? What developments have taken place in the last twenty years that have reevaluated this wartime action? A variety of materials is provided to assist readers in understanding the internment experience. Six interpretive essays examine key aspects of the event and provide new interpretations based on the most recent scholarship. Essays include: - A short narrative history of the Japanese in America before World War II - The evacuation - Life within barbed wire-the assembly and relocation centers - The question of loyalty-Japanese Americans in the military and draft resisters - Legal challenges to the evacuation and internment - After the war-resettlement and redress A chronology of events, 26 biographical profiles of important figures, the text of 10 key primary documents--from Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment camps, to first-person accounts of the internment experience--a glossary of terms, and an annotative bibliography of recommended print sources and web sites provide ready reference value. Every library should update its resources on World War II with this history and reference guide.
Download or read book Japanese American Internment written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Tangled History. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced life in Japanese internment camps during World War II."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Japanese American Internment written by Rachael Hanel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans in relocation centers during World War II. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of Japanese internees and Caucasians.
Download or read book How Did This Happen Here written by Leni Donlan and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor, why Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and move into faraway camps, and what happened to their businesses and belongings when they were released.
Download or read book The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II written by John Davenport and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines historical information with photographs, primary source excerpts, and first-person narratives to examine the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and its implications.
Download or read book Camp Harmony written by Louis Fiset and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed portrait of one assembly center for Japanese American internees
