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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
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The Movement to Teach AAPI History in Public Schools (en español)
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This reading provides context and historical overview of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This resource is in Spanish.
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Snapshots of Japanese American Incarceration
Create a Gallery Walk for students using these photographs of life during Japanese American incarceration.
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![Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/ddr-densho-151-410-mezzanine-80ef64fc03-a.jpg?h=ae4494b8&itok=Yyvvu1tH)
Snapshots of Japanese American Incarceration (en español)
Create a Gallery Walk for students using these photographs of life during Japanese American incarceration. This resource is in Spanish.
![Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/ddr-densho-151-410-mezzanine-80ef64fc03-a.jpg?h=ae4494b8&itok=Yyvvu1tH)
Inside the Japanese American Campaign for Reparations
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In this interview with NPR, a former incarceree recounts the redress campaign’s challenges, the realities of incarceration camps, and implications for other reparations movements.
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![President Ronald Reagan celebrates with senators and representatives during a signing ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington on Aug. 10, 1988.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/AP23054734095352.jpg?h=bdbe5d66&itok=O8NcEEpY)
How History Led Japanese Americans to Stand with Immigrants
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This PBS news article recounts how history inspired Japanese Americans in Tacoma, Washington, to support immigrants’ rights in 2020.
“Concentration Constellation” by Lawson Fusao Inada
In this poem, Lawson Fusao Inada, a survivor of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, describes the prison camps across the United States.
“Concentration Constellation” by Lawson Fusao Inada (en español)
In this poem, Lawson Fusao Inada, a survivor of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, describes the prison camps across the United States. This resource is in Spanish.
Japanese American Military Service and Protest During WWII
Learn about the complex history of Japanese American military service during World War II.
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![Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team climb into a truck as they prepare to move their bivouac area, Oct. 14, 1944, Chambois sector, France.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/en-denshopd-i114-00001-1.jpg?h=67b5dadd&itok=fMtJPbaw)
The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
This reading provides context and historical overview of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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![With baggage stacked, residents of Japanese ancestry await bus at Wartime Civil Control Administration station, 2020 Van Ness Avenue, as part of the first group of 664 to be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/orig_536065_5022.jpg?h=9847c4ab&itok=I2jJDyg0)
Legal Challenges to Japanese American Incarceration
Learn about Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu's Supreme Court cases challenging the legality of Japanese American incarceration.
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![Manzanar, California. Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-08/orig_539961_722.jpg?h=2ab4308d&itok=WVF9rnQS)