Excavating Stories and Unearthing History in Fall 2024 REVIEW: “A Capstone Collection from a Beloved Historian” INTERVIEW: Turning history into a graphic novel John Okada’s college year in Nebraska recalled at opening of historic Japanese Hall Okada graffiti preserved at historic Nippon Kan ...
October 30, 2021 Moderating the stories fromWe Hereby Refuseand others for a virtual workshop session on “Trials of Suspicion, Segregation, and Selective Service.” Also presenting are Matt Lautzenheiser on the Enemy Alien Hearing Boards held at Fort Missoula, Montana, and Stan Shikuma on the...
I’ll help introduceBeyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese American Stories of the Pacific Northwest,a web-based project forFriends of Minidokathat combines narration, oral histories, and visual content into online tours that create virtual “monuments.” The first tour isResisters of the Pacific Northwes...
scenes stories about the Heart Mountain draft resisters, and leave questions in the chatroom for discussion afterwards. Erin brings her own experience of working on building a forthcoming database with the biographies and archival files of all 63 defendants in the largest mass trial in Wyoming hist...
Excavating Stories and Unearthing History in Fall 2024 REVIEW: “A Capstone Collection from a Beloved Historian” INTERVIEW: Turning history into a graphic novel John Okada’s college year in Nebraska recalled at opening of historic Japanese Hall Okada graffiti preserved at historic Nippon Kan ...
Francisco Japantown on July 27. Art and wife Debbie caught Covid from a cruise the week before so had to join us by Zoom in the Koho Co-Creative Space in the Peace Plaza, but it was still a celebratory event with stories told, tributes made, and city proclamations presented.Continue ...
Starting today and for the month of May you can watch director Rory Banyard’s new film on Minidoka,Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp,onselect local PBS stationsand thePBS app. I want to thank Rory for calling me in to talk about the Munson Report, the wartime JACL, grow...
Tamiko Nimurais an Asian American (Sansei/Pinay) writer living in Tacoma, Washington. Her training in community journalism, literature and American ethnic studies (MA, PhD, University of Washington) prepared her to research, document, and tell the stories of people of color. She can be found ...
In the meantime, if you haven’t yetsigned the petitionto Stop the Fence at Tule Lake, please consider doing so now. You’ll be joining nearly 26,000 signatories, most of whom signed thanks to the support of actor/activist George Takei on the basis of this one single tweet: ...
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