Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manzanar National Historic Site arborist Dave Goto walks among pear trees in an orchard on the former 814-acre Japanese American ...

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When Jeelanne Khattab learned about Manzanar for the first time this year, she immediately knew that she needed to visit the site where more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during ...

Manzanar is remembered as a historic site, quiet and empty under the desert sky. But visitors and rangers alike report strange experiences after dark. Footsteps where no one is present, voices carried ...

In March of this year, I wrote a column concerning my visit to the Poston Relocation Center, not far from Parker, Arizona. It was a humbling experience to realize what the United States had done to ...

ANDOVER — In Spanish, “manzanar” means “apple orchard.” It’s also the name of a desolate location in eastern California, at the base of the Sierra Nevada. How desolate? Desolate enough to be the site ...

A new orchestral work uses the story of Manzanar to send a message its creators hope will influence future generations. The music references the World War II internment camps that tens of thousands of ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, in response to the bombing on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, requiring “any or all persons” of Japanese descent living on the West Coast ...