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http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/
This online exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, available as text or audio, focuses on the experiences of Japanese Americans who were detained in camps during World War II. The website prepares visitors to reflect and answer questions such as:
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Why do you think internment happened?
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Do you think it could happen again?
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Is there a comparison between the events of September 11, 2001 and the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Explore the balance between individual rights and the need for securtiy in times of national crisis. By looking to history, can you find answers to questions about individual rights and civil liberties in a war against terrorism?
An interactive gallery combines images, music, text and first person accounts. More than 800 artifacts related to the Japanese American experience, including archival photos, original manuscripts, publications and other objects are available in Collection Search. Related activities, links and a bibliography are located in the Resources Section.
Korea: The Unfinished War
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Listen to the audio (60 minutes) or read the full transcript. Primary audio sources include interviews as well as music and radio news broadcasts from the era.
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Hear President Truman tell the American public about the importance of defending South Korea. Vintage photographs are included along with in-text links to additional information such as President Truman's State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress on January 4, 1950. Maps provide step-by-step accounts of the military movements of the Korean War.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/korea/index.html
Clara Estelle Breed was the supervising children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library from 1929 to 1945. When Japanese American children were relocated to internment camps, she went to the train station, distributed self-addressed, stamped postcards and urged the children to write to her.
She gave her collection of 250 postcards and letters to one of her correspondents who later donated the collection to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Miss Breed spoke out publicly against the internment policy, one she felt was undemocratic and unfair to Japanese Americans. Primary sources provide true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Click through on clips of home movies, audio interviews, scanned letters and envelopes, a full-text article by Miss Breed published in Library Journal (February 1, 1943) and a chronology of World War II incarceration. The website describes life in the camps as well as what life was like for American youth during the 1940s.
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