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Stanford University

Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
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Primary
Other

Utah Division of State History: Teaching Utah With Primary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
"Our Past Their Present" offers primary source sets on Utah history topics such as Japanese Internment and Women during World War II. Created by the Utah Division of State History to meet Social Studies Core Standards.
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Article
Museum of the City of San Francisco

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Internment of Japanese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers 1942 San Francisco News articles covering the internment of San Francisco's Japanese population.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Japanese Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the saga of Japanese immigration to America, first to Hawaii, then encountering resistance on the U.S. Mainland, encountering difficulties during WWII, and rebuilding a community.
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: The Evacuation of the Japanese Following Pearl Harbor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on Japanese internment during WWII in which students read and analyze original text to recount events and then evaluate the consequences brought about by domestic policies after Pearl Harbor.
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Website
Other

University of California: Jarda: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital gateway to numerous archives of primary source material on the Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Camp Harmony Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent...
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Japanese American National Museum: Benji Okubo Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Benji Okubo (1904-1975) was a Japanese American artist who was placed in an internment camp during World War II. A seelection of his paintings are displayed here from before and during the war. A link above his paintings, takes you to a...
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Other

Japanese American National Museum: Mori Shimada Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Mori Shimada was a young man when he was imprisoned in the Heart Mountain Japanese concentration camp in Wyoming in World War II. A collection of photographs that he took there are displayed in this online exhibit.
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Article
Other

Japanese Canadian History: The War Years and Beyond: Years of Sorrow and Shame

For Students 9th - 10th
The internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II is a dark time for human rights in Canada. The Japanese Canadian History Project looks at events and the impact on the Japanese community, and on the broader Canadian community.
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Curated OER

Japanese Internment Camps

For Students Pre-K - 1st
japanese internment camps
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Graphic
Curated OER

Japanese Internment Camps

For Students Pre-K - 1st
japanese internment camps
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: World War Ii and Japanese American Relocation [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th
This lesson plan is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at Japanese aggression in China and Indochina prior to and during World War II, the quandary in the United States of whether or...
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Activity
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Leaving Things Behind [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about Japanese-Americans who were forced to relocate to interment camps during World War II.
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Primary
Other

Telling Their Stories: Japanese Americans Interned During World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch and listen to these fascinating interviews of Japanese American men and women who were interned during World War II.
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Executive Order: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the background behind this order that moved people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in 1942. Provides a link to an image of the original document and a copy of the text.
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Handout
White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: Watari Dori: A Bird of Passage

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a good way to educate students about Japanese internment camps. This follows the story of one woman and her triumphant return to Canada. Includes a quiz and lesson plans.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: You Decide: Japanese American Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
Read over discussions on the Japanese American interment and decide if it was appropriate. Your opinion will be added to the tally of others who have visited the site.
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Website
University of Washington

Digital Collections: Society and Culture Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Social Issues Collection is an image database of the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers a variety of political and social topics, from women's issues, government, labor organizations such as...
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Japanese Americans and Constitutional Guarantees

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that explores the history of the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and a discussion of some of the resulting Supreme Court cases.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Eyewitness to History: I'm American No Matter What

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] TThis passasge contains a first person account of a child who was rounded up and placed in a Japanese internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Primary
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: Asian America

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents and books that detail the racial discrimination Chinese and Japanese immigrants faced in the U.S. during America's involvement in the Second World War. One report from 1877 looks at Chinese...
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Primary
Curated OER

National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord, is an online book no longer in print. It describes the internment and imprisonment of...
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Handout
History Link

Bertha Pitts Campbell: An Oral History

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Washington State Oral History Project comes this captivating interview with Bertha Pitts Campbell, an African American woman and early Seattle civil rights worker. Campbell talks about the discrimination and segregation she...

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