Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians, without due process, based on identity rather than something ...

Scholars have defined the elements of what qualifies as a concentration camp system. Based on those, ICE detention facilities ...

The annual pilgrimage, now in its 57th year, brings together different communities to remember the 120,000 Japanese Americans ...

After having their lives taken away and being sent to prisons around the country, Japanese Americans used baseball to find ...

With the United States celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Americans are reflecting on how historical highs and lows shaped the country into the nation ...

A coalition of the descendants of a Japanese American internment camp and Trump-aligned wind power opponents helped kill an Idaho wind farm, but A.I.-driven energy demand keeps rising. The site where ...

A bingo fundraiser for Meals on Wheels is happening in April. Credit: Photo via Carson City Senior Center. History, art, poetry and Chautauqua talks, health workshops and Meals on Wheels fundraisers ...

Houghton Library is where Harvard keeps its literary treasures: rare books and manuscripts and correspondence of the great and famous. “New Acquisitions,” a small exhibition devoted to recent ...

Survivors of America's Japanese internment camps for nearly a decade have held an annual prayer ceremony and commemoration to remind people of the dark chapter of history. This year brought a twist as ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It has been 84 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and immigrants. As part of Japanese Internment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 84 years ago today, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers" as a security threat during ...

February 19, 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order for the removal of Japanese Americans on the west coast into internment camps on February 19, 1942. While the order did ...