When I arrived in Lone Pine, that sweet little town at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas, I planned to make a documentary about mountain climbing. I would try to climb Mt. Whitney, and I would do it ...

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 ...

Reporting from Independence, Calif.Reporting from Independence, Calif. — Masako Miki came to this picturesque landscape of snow-tipped mountains and desert shrubs Saturday on a mission of remembrance.

It’s hard to believe that more than 10,000 people once lived on the barren stretch of land that is now known as the Manzanar National Historic Site. Located adjacent to U.S. 395, about five miles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS SOURCE TO TOYO MIYATAKE STUDIO - This 1945 photo provided by the Toyo Miyatake Studio shows a memorial service for Giichi ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 but ...

From behind barbed wire, 7-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuti and her family were watched, monitored and housed in camps by their government as a threat to the people of their country. In California. That same ...

38.7 x 48.6 cm. (15.2 x 19.1 in.) Ansel Adams, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans, New York, 1944, pp. 18-19, illustrated (illustration of another example) Ansel Adams and ...

A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in ...

This 1945 photo provided by the Matsumura family via the National Park Service shows a memorial service for Giichi Matsumura, who died on nearby Mount Williamson during his incarceration at an ...