Instructional Video7:12
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Tracy Slater - The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp

Higher Ed
Tracy Slater, a Jewish American writer in a mixed Jewish–Japanese family, tells the true story behind her book Together in Manzanar. It follows Elaine Buchman Yoneda, a Jewish American mother in 1942 who must decide whether to let the...
Instructional Video2:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Floyd Cheung - Jazz at Manzanar

Higher Ed
Floyd Cheung, a professor of English and American Studies at Smith College and currently serving as the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, introduces a poem he wrote after a field trip to the Manzanar Incarceration Center in...
Instructional Video8:40
Weird History

Toyo & Seytsu and Executive Order 9066

12th - Higher Ed
Mark Takahashi talks about his family’s experience with Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. After Pearl Harbor and the issuing of Executive Order 9066, Mark's paternal and maternal grandparents, Toyo and Seytsu, were sent to...
Audio
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: A More Perfect Union

9th - 10th
A comprehensive site from the National Museum of American History about the rights of citizens and the power of states as seen in the Japanese American internment. Primary resources abound in interactive multimedia galleries.