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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, who uncovered proof that thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the United States during World War II were held not for reasons of national security ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The students huddled together, trying to keep warm amid low temperatures and heavy gusts of wind. More than 250 miles from their homes in sunny Orange County, the harsh climate of Manzanar, which sits ...

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 ...

In 1943, legendary photographer Ansel Adams took portraits of Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Manzanar Relocation Camp in California. “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering ...

My plan to spend Super Tuesday scaling the eastern flank of Mt. Whitney until my knees or lungs gave out was foiled by the closure of the Whitney Portal Road, which was buried under a late, but ...

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MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Calif. — The orchards planted in the 1920s around the old town of Manzanar have faced drought, flooding, wildfires, pests, marauding elk and trespassers armed with ...