ONLINE RESOURCES:

Densho -- a nonprofit founded in 1996, with the goal of collecting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II, and educating the public about what happened. It is an incredible resource, and should be a first stop for anyone researching the incarceration camps.

50 Objects/Stories: The American Japanese Incarceration - A history project that explores the human impact of the mass incarceration of 120,000 American Japanese during World War II, through the visual and textual examination of 50 curated objects.

National Archives - Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese incarceration during World War II

U of California Bancroft Archives: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement, a digital archives.

Manzanar National Historic Site, California

Tule Lake National Monument, California

Poston Preservation, Arizona

Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona

Minidoka National Historic Site, Idaho

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Wyoming

Amache/ Granada Relocation Center - Colorado

University of Denver Amache Research Project

NPS Topaz center, Utah

Topaz Museum, Utah

NPS: Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery, Arkansas

Rohwer relocation center, Arkansas

Butler Center for Arkansas Studies [Central Arkansas Library System]: The Rosalie Santine Gould - Mabel Jamison Vogel Collection

Jerome incarceration camp, Arkansas

 NONFICTION BOOKS

Only What We Could Carry. Editor: Lawson Fusao Inada

Facing the Mountain, by Daniel James Brown

Setsuko's Secret, by Shirley Ann Higuchi

When Can We Go Back to America, By Susan H. Kamei

Years of Infamy, by Michi Nishiura Weglyn

We Hereby Refuse, by Frank Abe & Tamiko Nimura

Free To Die For Their Country, by Eric L Muller

They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei

Stanley Hayami: Nisei Son—His Diary, Letters, & Story, Annotated by Joanne Oppenheim.

Letters from the 442, by Minoru Masuda

Kenichi Zenimura: Japanese American Baseball Pioneer, by Bill Staples Jr.

Twice Orphaned: Voices from the Children's Village of Manzanar, by Catherine Irwin

Children of Manzanar, by Heather Lindquist

American Sutra, by Duncan Ryuken Williams

Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

 NOVELS, MEMOIRS and POETRY

No No Boy, by John Okada

When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, by Hisaye Yamamoto

The Grave on the Wall, by Brandon Shimoda

Letters to Memory, by Karen Tei Yamashita

Legends from Camp, by Lawson Fusao Inada

Camp Notes, by Mitsuye Yamada

Power Made Us Swoon, by Byrnn Saito

May Sky: There is Always Tomorrow: An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku, by Violet Kazue De Cristoforo

PHOTO and ART BOOKS

Chiura Obata’s Topaz Moon, edited by Kimi Kodani Hill

The Art of Gaman, by Delphine Hirasuna

Shadows of Minidoka, by Roger Shimomura

Balancing Cultures, by Jerry Takigawa

Peaceful Painter, by Hisako Hibi

Colors of Confinement, edited by Eric Muller

The Go For Broke Spirit, by Shane Sato

Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II, by Paul Kitagaki

Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams

Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages