Secondary Sources
Blakemore, Erin. “The U.S. Forced Them into Internment Camps. Here’s How Japanese
Americans Started Over.” History, 21 May 2021,
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/united-states-forced-japanese-americans-into-
internment-camps-here-how-started-over.
This source provided information and propaganda posters.
“Executive Order 9066.” DocsTeach, 19 Feb. 1942,
www.docsteach.org/documents/document/executive-order-9066.
This explains EO 9066(arguably the most important information in our
topic)
“Hitler in Los Angeles: Hermann Schwinn Arrested after Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941.” Hitler
in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,
scalar.usc.edu/works/hitler-in-los-angeles/media/hermann-schwinn-arrested-after-pearl-
harbor-dec-8-1941#:~:text=Hermann%20Schwinn%20Arrested%20After%20Pearl,8%2C
%201941. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This website provides many photos and it gives details on many events that
happened as a result of Pearl Harbor.
“Japanese Internment Camps: WWII, Life & Conditions.” History.Com, A&E Television
Networks, www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation. Accessed 18
Jan. 2025.
This website helped us a lot because it provided a lot of information about the
Japanese Americans.
Magazine, Smithsonian. “Eighty Years after the U.S. Incarcerated 120,000 Japanese
Americans, Trauma and Scars Still Remain.” Smithsonian.Com, Smithsonian Institution, 11
Feb. 2022, www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/eighty-years-after-us-
incarcerated-japanese-americans-trauma-scars-remain-180979519/.
This source was important because it provided information and we learned about how
they struggled to gain freedom.
MarshallV. “Japanese American Incarceration: The National WWII Museum: New Orleans.”
The National WWII Museum | New Orleans, The National World War II Museum, 11 July
2018, www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-american-incarceration.
This source describes who wanted to help the Japanese Americans and how
much property was lost and what the congress gave back.
Timeline of Events for Japanese Internment Camps_1.Pdf,
edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Timeline of Events for Japanese Internment
Camps_1.pdf. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
This was important to understand the sequence of events, to piece together
our knowledge, and to inspire further, organized research.
“Timeline: Articles and Essays: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942-
1946: Digital Collections: Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress,
www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-american-internment-camp-newspapers/articles-and-
essays/timeline. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This provides another viewpoint on the sequence of events relating to our
topic. We organized further research based upon the information found in
this document.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/japanese-american-relocation. Accessed 18 Jan.
2025.
This source provided a sequence of events of what happened.
“World War II Japanese American Incarceration: Mass Removal and Incarceration.”
National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records
Administration, www.archives.gov/research/aapi/ww2/incarceration. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This website was helpful because it gave us a lot of records about the people
who were interned.
Varner, Natasha. “Little Known Stories of Japanese Americans Wo Resisted
Incarceration - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment.” Densho,
27 July 2023, densho.org/catalyst/beyond-the-big-four/.
This tells us about the story of brave Japanese Americans who protested the acts.
They resembled the responsibility of fighting for one’s rights.
Nagata, Donna K, et al. “The Japanese American Wartime Incarceration: Examining the
Scope of Racial Trauma.” The American Psychologist, U.S. National Library of Medicine,
Jan. 2019, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6354763/.
This provided a professional viewpoint into the social impacts on the
Japanese Americans.
“John DeWitt.” John DeWitt | Densho Encyclopedia,
encyclopedia.densho.org/John_DeWitt/#:~:text=Wartime%20commanding%20general%20of
%20the,Americans%20from%20the%20West%20Coast. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This explained the thinking process DeWitt had behind the hideous acts he
passed.
“American History, Race, and Prison.” Vera Institute of Justice, www.vera.org/reimagining-
prison-web-report/american-history-race-and-prison. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This explained the history of races in America, so we could better
understand the motives and the context the Japanese American incarceration
was supported by.
Primary Sources
“Executive Order 9066 (1942-1945).” Immigration History, 2 Sept. 2019,
immigrationhistory.org/item/executive-order-9066/#:~:text=The%20Japanese%20attack
%20on%20Pearl,and%20imposition%20of%20a%20curfew.
This explained 9066 with the images.
“Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942).” National
Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration,
www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This website gave us the picture of Executive Order 9066.
“Home.” The National WWII Museum | New Orleans, www.nationalww2museum.org/.
Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
Provides many historical documents regarding the incarceration.
“Japanese American Internment.” National Archives and Records Administration, National
Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/news/topics/japanese-american-
internment. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
This website gave us access to video that were both primary and secondary sources,
but mostly primary.
“Japanese-American Incarceration during World War II.” National Archives and Records
Administration, National Archives and Records Administration,
www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This website gave us a lot of primary sources as in pictures.
“Japanese-American Internment.” Japanese-American Internment | Harry S. Truman,
www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/japanese-american-internment#.
Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
Provides multiple documents that are primary sources.
“Research by Subject: Japanese American Incarceration Camp Research Guide: How Did
Children Cope with the Camps?” How Did Children Cope with the Camps? - Japanese
American Incarceration Camp Research Guide - Research by Subject at San Diego State
University, libguides.sdsu.edu/c.php?g=1096797&p=8036858. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
This provides many primary and secondary sources with explanations.
