eBooks

Nickles, Greg. "The Wartime Internment Camps." In We Came to North America: The Japanese, 22-23. US: Crabtree Publishing, 2001. History Reference Center, EBSCOhost.

This article describes the life of Japanese Americans and Canadians in internment camps during the World War II. Japanese families were rounded up by police and send to internment camps. People tried to make these actions sound less extreme by calling the camps relocation or isolation centers.  Families were divided between different camps and it was years before some prisoners saw their friends and loved ones again.

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Showalter, Dennis E. History in Dispute. World War II,1943-1945 Vol. 5 Vol. 5. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.

Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers World War II, 1943-1945. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.

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Soga, Keiho. Life Behind Barbed Wire The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaiʻi Issei. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2008. 

A firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai'i Japanese man during World War II.  After being held for six months on Sand Island, Soga was transferred to an Army camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and later to a Justice Department camp in Santa Fe. He would spend just under four years in custody before returning to Hawai'i in the months following the end of the war. 

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