New Articles in the Densho Encyclopedia
The Densho Encyclopedia continues to expand with more newly written articles about the Japanese American experience during World War II. In the last month, 36 articles were added to this online...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, November-December 2012
In the last two months of 2012 Densho published 42 new articles to our public encyclopedia about the Japanese American experience during World War II, including: Japanese American Citizens League...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, April 5-18
If one were to make up lists of important or influential Japanese Americans viewed from an ethnic community perspective and from an external, mainstream American perspective, one would likely end up...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, April 19 to May 9
The so-called “Citizen Isolation Centers” in Moab, Utah, and Leupp, Arizona—essentially War Relocation Authority maximum security prisons that held those deemed too dangerous for their run-of-the-mill...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, May 17 to June 2
One of the often repeated stories that Sansei who grew up the ’50s and ’60s tell is of learning about the wartime removal and incarceration of their families during World War II in college or through...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, July 2014
By Densho’s Content Director Brian Niiya One of the neglected areas of Japanese American history is the story of Japanese Americans in Japan just before and during the war between the U.S. and Japan....
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, August 2014
New to the encyclopedia this month are articles on writers and artists, Nisei soldiers during World War II, and a little known INS detention camp, among other topics. Patricia Wakida, one of the...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, September 2014
In 1987, in the midst of the movement for redress and reparations for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, November 2014
Having worked in museums and similar organizations for most of the last twenty-five or so years, the work they do is close to my heart. Many museum exhibitions have told parts of the story of the...
View ArticleDensho Encyclopedia Reaches a Milestone
The Densho Encyclopedia published its 1,000th article this month—a milestone made possible, in part, by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement...
View ArticleNew Articles in the Densho Encyclopedia
The Densho Encyclopedia continues to expand with more newly written articles about the Japanese American experience during World War II. In the last month, 36 articles were added to this online...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, November-December 2012
In the last two months of 2012 Densho published 42 new articles to our public encyclopedia about the Japanese American experience during World War II, including: Japanese American Citizens League...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, April 5-18
If one were to make up lists of important or influential Japanese Americans viewed from an ethnic community perspective and from an external, mainstream American perspective, one would likely end up...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, April 19 to May 9
The so-called “Citizen Isolation Centers” in Moab, Utah, and Leupp, Arizona—essentially War Relocation Authority maximum security prisons that held those deemed too dangerous for their run-of-the-mill...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, May 17 to June 2
One of the often repeated stories that Sansei who grew up the ’50s and ’60s tell is of learning about the wartime removal and incarceration of their families during World War II in college or through...
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, July 2014
By Densho’s Content Director Brian Niiya One of the neglected areas of Japanese American history is the story of Japanese Americans in Japan just before and during the war between the U.S. and Japan....
View ArticleNew Densho Encyclopedia Articles, August 2014
New to the encyclopedia this month are articles on writers and artists, Nisei soldiers during World War II, and a little known INS detention camp, among other topics. Patricia Wakida, one of the...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, September 2014
In 1987, in the midst of the movement for redress and reparations for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of...
View ArticleNew Encyclopedia Articles, November 2014
Having worked in museums and similar organizations for most of the last twenty-five or so years, the work they do is close to my heart. Many museum exhibitions have told parts of the story of the...
View ArticleDensho Encyclopedia Reaches a Milestone
The Densho Encyclopedia published its 1,000th article this month—a milestone made possible, in part, by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement...
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