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Davis, Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. New York: Dutton, 1982. Grades 6-12.

Garrigue, Sheila. The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito. New York: Bradbury Press, 1994 (1985). Grades 6-9.

Hamanaka, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism, and Renewal. New York: Orchard, 1990. Grades 6-12.

Kitano, Harry. The Japanese Americans. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. Grades 8-12.

Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1995. Grades 7-12.

Means, Florence Crannell. The Mover-Outers. New York: Walker & Co, 1993. Grades 4-7.

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Illus. by Dom Lee. New York: Lee and Low, 1993. (Also published in Spanish.) Grades 2-4.

Savin, Marcia. The Moon Bridge. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1992. Grades 5-7.

Stanley, Jerry. I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment. Illus. New York: Crown Publishers, 1996. Grades 5-10.

Takaki, Ronald. ssei and Nisei: The Settling of Japanese America. New York: Chelsea House, 1994. Grades 6-10.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography. Illus. New York: Morrow, 1995. Grades 6-9.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey Home. (Various eds. have different illustrators.) New York: Aladdin Books, 1992 1978). Grades 3-7.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. Illus. by Donald Carrick. Revised ed. New York: Creative Arts Books, 1985 (1971). Grades 4-12.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. Illus. by Joanna Yardley. New York: Putnam/Philomel Books, 1993. Grades K-4.

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Alonso, Karen. Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American Internment Camps. Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Chang, Gordon H., ed. Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Cogan, Frances B. Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945. University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Conrat, Maisie and Richard Conrat. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Small Pr Distribution, 1997.

Daniels, Roger, Taylor, Sandra C., and Kitano, Harry H. L., eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill & Wang, 1993.

Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp. Scholastic, Inc., 1999.

Drinnon, Richard. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Fremon, David K. Japanese-American Internment. Enslow Publishers, 1996.

Hatamiya, Leslie T. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Hayashi, Ann Koto. Face of the Enemy, Heart of a Patriot: Japanese-American Internment Narratives. Garland Publishing. 1995.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Bantam Books, 1986 (1973).

Inouy, Mamoru. Heart Mountain Story: Photographs by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. Mamoru Inouye,Grace Schaub,Otto Hage Photographer), Hansel Mieth (Photographer), 1997.

Kashima, Tetsuden, ed. Personal Justice Denied: Report by the US Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Seattle: University of Washington Press., 1997.

Mackey, Mik (ed). Remembering Heart Mountain: Essays on Japanese American Internment in Wyoming. Western History Publications, 1998.

Masugi, Ken and Leona Hiraoka. Japanese-American Internment: The Bill of Rights in Crisis. Jackdaw Publications, 1993.

McClain, Charles J. The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress. Garland Publishing, 1994.

Miles, Fern Harrington. Captive Community Life in a Japanese Internment 1941-1945. Mossy Creek Press, 1987.

Myer, Dillon S. (Head of the War Relocation Authority) Uprooted Americans: The Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority During World War II. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1971.

Nagata, Donna K. Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment. Perseus Books, 1993.

Nishimoto, Richard S. Inside an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at Poston, Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Photos by Joan Myers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.

Tateishi, John, ed. And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. New York: Random House, 1984.

Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz. University of California Press, 1993.

TIME Magazine. "How to Tell Your Friends From the Japs." Dec. 22, 1941, p. 33.

Tunnell, Michael O. and George W. Chilcoat. Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945. University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984 (1982).

Weglyn, Michi Nishiura. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. Intro. by James Michener. Updated ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996 (1976).

Wygle,Eugene D. and Peter R. Wheeler. Surviving A Japanese POW Camp: Father and Son Endure Internment in Manila during World War II. Pathfinder Publishing of California, 1995.

Yancey, Diane. Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp. Lucent Books, 1997.

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Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Shervington, Gwendolyn L., ed. A Fire is Burning, It is in Me: The Life and Writings of Michiyo Fukaya. Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1996.

Yamauchi, Wakako, ed. Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir. Garrett Hongo,
Introduction; Valerie Minerby , afterword. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.

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Ichiuji, Joe. Go for Broke [sound recording]. [Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center, Madison, LM113] 1995.

MIS [Military Intelligence Service] -Northeast Association. Unsung Heroes: The Military Intelligence Service, Past, Present, Future: The "Eyes and Ears" of the Allied Forces During and after World War I: WW II 50th Anniversary Reunion, Seattle, '45-'95, Seattle, WA: MIS-Northwest Association, 1996.

Stanley L. Falk and Warren M. Tsuneishi, eds. MIS in the War against Japan: Personal Experiences Related at the 1993 MIS Capital Reunion, "The Nisei Veteran: An American Patriot." Vienna, VA: Japanese American Veterans Association of Washington, DC, 1995.

Tsuneishi, Warren. Military intelligence service in the war against Japan [sound recording]. 1 sound tape reel (60 min.). [Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center, Madison, LM113], 1995.

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Ehrlich, Gretel. Heart Mountain. New York: Viking, 1988.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. New York: Harcourt, 1994.

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. Boston: David R. Bodine, 1982.

Larson, Elsie J. Dawn's Early Light. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996.

Steel, Danielle. Silent Honor. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

P O E T R Y

De Cristoforo, Violet Kazue. Poetic reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1944. Santa Clara, CA: Communicart, 1987.

Jiro Nakano, Kay Nakano, eds and trans. Poets Behind Barbed Wire: Tanka Poems. Illustrations by George Hoshida. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press: Hawaii Ethnic Resources Center Talk Story, 1983

Violet (Kazue) de Cristoforo (compiled, translated, and prefaced). May Sky: There is Always Tomorrow: An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996.

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Elizabeth Bayley Willis Papers

Elizabeth Baley Willis was a graduate of the University of Washington, an art consultant, a museum professional, a patron of the arts, and a collector. She taught art, Latin, and English for four years at Garfield High School in Seattle.  She served as Curator of the University's Henry Art Gallery (1946-48) and the San Francisco Museum of Art (1948-50), and worked as an advisor for the Technical Assistance Board of the United Nations.

This accession contains ... five folders of materials relating to former students who were evacuated to Camp Harmony. There are three folders of letters from students, a folder of clippings, and a folder containing a Camp Harmony newsletter. The students' letters relate their feelings about being incarcerated, their reactions to the camp itself, and their hopes for the future.

Letter - May 1, 1942
Letter - May 14, 1942
Letter - May 20, 1942
Letter - July 7, 1942
Letter - April 11, 1943

"Life in Camp Harmony" From Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979.

Japanese Internment Camps:  A Personal Account, by Reiko Oshima Komoto, March 1997.

An Internment Experience, written by the grandson of Paul Ozaki about his grandfather's internment in Poston.

Diary entries by

Harry Ueno (In Manzanar, Dec. 6, 1942)
Minoru Yasui (In Manzanar, Mar, 28, 1942, June 21, 1943). See U.S. District and Supreme Court Decisions- Minoru Yasui.

Japanese and Japanese-American Internment, A letter by Kiyoaki Murata, included as the introduction to Lillian Baker's Dishonoring America:  The Falsification of World War II History.

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Adams, Ansel. Manzanar. Commentary by John Hersey; compiled by John Armor & Peter Wright. [New York] : Times Books, 1988.

Egami, Hatsuye. The evacuation diary of Hatsuye Egami. Pasadena, CA: Intentional Productions, 1995

Gesensway, Deborah. Beyond words: images from America's concentration camps. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Leighton, Alexander H. The governing of men; general principles and recommendations based on experience at a Japanese relocation camp. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1945.

May sky: there is always tomorrow: an anthology of Japanese American concentration camp kaiko haiku. Compiled, translated, and prefaced by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo. Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1997.

Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983.

Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei daughter. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1979] c1953. [For Chapter 1, "Life in Camp Harmony", click here.]

Tateishi, John, ed. And justice for all: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps. New York: Random House, c1984.

The Japanese American internment, 1942-45: a lesson from recent history. [prepared by Japanese American Internment Instructional Unit Committee and the National Pacific/Asia Resource Center on Aging]. Olympia, WA: Superintendent of Public Instruction, [1983]

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert exile: the uprooting of a Japanese American family. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1982.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. Philomel, 1993 (32p)

United States War Relocation Authority. Impounded people; Japanese-Americans in the relocation centers. Tucson, University of Arizona Press [1969]

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Further and Further Away:  The Relocation of San Diego's Nikkei Community, 1942, from The Journal of San Diego History, Winter-Spring 1993.

Japanese American Incarceration: A Selected Bibliography of works held at the University of Washington Libraries.

Bibliography of Books on Japanese-American Internment Available at McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz.

Bibliography of "Internment of Japanese-Americans" and "Security Personnel, Japanese-American Camps," University of North Carolina.

Books on the Internment Experience collected by the Children of the Camps Project.

Miller, Will
The Construction of Race: Hirabayashi and the Supreme Court.  Web-based essay at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Renteln, Alison Dundes
A Psychohistorical Analysis of the Japanese American Internment.  from Human Rights Quarterly [on-line].  17(4):618-648.

Kulkarni, Manjusha P.
Application of the Civil Liberties Act to Japanese Peruvians: Seeking Redress for Deportation and Internment Conducted by the United States Government During World War II.   5 B.U. PUB. INT. L.J. 309 (1996).

Kazak, Don
When Americans were treated as traitors

Oda, Linda K.
Self-Study Unique to an Asian American [how being an Asian American influenced teaching].  Weber State University, 1996.

Roosevelt, Eleanor
A Challenge to American Sportsmanship [concerning the decision "to divide the disloyal and disturbing Japanese from the others in the War Relocation centers"].  Originally in Collier's 112 (October 16, 1943):21, 71.

Ito, Robert
Concentration Camp or Summer Camp? Against revisionist history, 1998.

Mackey, Mike
A Brief History of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and the Japanese American Experience