PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Picturing Japanese American Internment: Dorothea Lange
This media gallery explores the government-issued Japanese American internment that occurred during World War II using two videos from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Dorothea Lange, a documentary...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Japanese American Internment in World War Ii
This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Life in Japanese American Internment Camp
Information about life in an internment camp. Includes related activities and links to books and other websites on Japanese American internment.
Digital History
Digital History: Explorations: Japanese American Internment
Comprehensive interactive learning module explores Japanese-American Internment during World War II and includes links to primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, and numerous other outside resources.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Japanese American Internment
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-Americans irrationally increased, resulting in Roosevelt's executive order that created internment camps for American citizens. Read about the camps, the life in the camps, and...
Other
Telling Their Stories: Japanese Americans Interned During World War Ii
Watch and listen to these fascinating interviews of Japanese American men and women who were interned during World War II.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Leaving Things Behind [Pdf]
This resource provides information about Japanese-Americans who were forced to relocate to interment camps during World War II.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: You Decide: Japanese American Internment
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: World War Ii: American Home Front: Japanese Americans
Norman Mineta, a Japanese American, gives a detailed account of his experiences living in an internment camp during World War II. There are many links to additional information such as pictures and letters.
Digital History
Digital History: World War Ii and Japanese American Relocation [Pdf]
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Japanese American Internment
What was the World War II experience like for the thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast? The activities in this activity are designed to provide a window into the war years. Using primary sources, students will explore...
The Atlantic Monthly Group
In Focus: World War Ii: Intermnent of Japanese Americans
Haunting photographs of Japanese-Americans as they were rounded up and placed in internment camps in the western United States not long after Pearl Harbor. The photographs all have captions which add context to the pictures as well as...
Other
Historical Soc. Of Penn: Japanese American Experience
The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies has a site devoted to the history of the Japanese American, the continuing traditions, the legacy of internment and more.
Other
Japanese American National Museum: Henry Sugimoto Collection
Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) was a Japanese American artist. Many of his paintings depict life during World War II in the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese internment camps in Arkansas and in the Fresno centre in California.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Villainizing Japanese Americans During the Wwii Era
Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how Japanese Americans were impacted by anti-Chinese exclusion policies of the 1800s, and why it escalated during World War II. As a result, Americans...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Dorothea Lange
This is a collection of four video lessons about Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work, and her works. Teaching materials are included.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Photographs of Japanese Internment
View Dorothea Lange's pictures of the Japanese Interment. View children getting an education, fathers with their sons, and many more great pictures.
EL Education
El Education: Honor for All: Japanese American Experience
These booklets (sample provided) were created by 7th grade students at the Harmon Middle School, in Aurora, Ohio as part of a case study of Japanese internment within a broader study of World War II. Students, singly or in pairs,...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: Asian America
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...
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Internment of Japanese Americans
This resource offers 1942 San Francisco News articles covering the internment of San Francisco's Japanese population.
Other
Japanese American National Museum: Mori Shimada Collection
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.
PBS
Pbs: The War: At Home
From the extensive PBS site accompanying Ken Burns' The War, read about America at home during World War II. Read about war mobilization, censorship, how families dealt with the war, and the abrogation of civil rights as Japanese...
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Conscience and the Constitution
Would you accept being drafted into military service if your family was being held in an internment camp? That was the question on many a Japanese American's mind during World War 2. Explore the stories of those who resisted service and...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Constitution on Trial: Internment of Japanese in Wwii
In this lesson, 11th graders look at what happened to the Japanese who were living in the United States during World War II and examine their experiences of internment. They will also consider the constitutionality of removing some civil...