Learn More - Links to Other Sites
Our Community Reads 2007
When the Emperor Was Divine

Learn More About Japanese American Internment Online

Ansel Adam’s photographs of the people interned at the Manzanar Camp, Library of Congress.

Asian American Voices - World War II and Asian Americans

Camp Harmony - Documents, letters and photographs from the Puyallup Assembly Center, a Japanese-American internment camp.

Densho Digital Archive - The Japanese American Legacy Project includes video, photographs, and recorded interviews with former detainees.

Digital History Site - Includes primary documents, photographs, and video.

Exploring Japanese American Internment - Site sponsored by National Asian American Telecommunications Association features photographs and video.

Executive Order 9066 - The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation

Free to Die for Their Country - The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II

Further Reading - Fiction and nonfiction available at the Library.

Japanese American Internment

Japanese American Internment - Photographs and artifacts from internment camps.

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives - Rich site from the California Digital Archives.

Letters from the Japanese American Internment from the Smithsonian Education site.

National Archives - Photographs, oral history, chronologies, documents, and lesson plans.

National Park Service - Lesson plans, recommended Web sites, and links to Manzanar and other NPS sites.

PBS: Conscience and the Constitution - Companion site to PBS documentary on 63 Japanese Americans who stood trial in 1944 for resisting the draft in "the largest organized resistance to incarceration."

PBS: Children of the Camps - Companion site to the PBS documentary about more than half of the people interned, the children.

Smithsonian Institution: A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution - An interactive site with photo galleries, music, video and text.

Topaz Camp - Site from Millard County, UT about the camp featured in When the Emperor Was Divine, including a link to the Topaz Museum.

Funding For Our Community Reads Provided By

• Our Community Reads grant from the Kane County Regional Office of Education, Dr. Clem Mejia, Regional Superintendent
• St. Charles Public Library (Illinois Per Capita Grant)
• Elgin Community College Writers Center