The book traces how amateur blackface minstrelsy wasn’t just a fleeting theatrical phase, but the hidden operating system of ...

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 ...

Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who ...

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

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 ...

In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ensure "good behavior" on the part of Japan.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to... New book 'Together in Manzanar' reveals life inside ...

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...