Japanese Internment

Teacher:	Ms. Ferro
Class:	U.S. History
Project Title:	Japanese Internment

Research in Print, Databases and WWW Links
Essential Research Questions	What was the experience of the people in the internment camps? How was propaganda used in relation to Japanese internment? What were the arguments for and against internment?
Task	Use what you have already studied regarding propaganda forms and techniques, the importance of audience and message and of course, the ultimate purpose of propaganda. Combine your knowledge of propaganda with what you research about Japanese internment. Make a historically appropriate piece of propaganda to support or refute Japanese internment. Evaluate a piece of propaganda done by your class mates that represents the opposite perspective than your propaganda piece represents.
Databases Suggestion: Open Facts on File Get the user name and password from Ms. Powers. Type in "life internment camp"	*Licensed Databases* Use these databases to find quality research information.
WWW Links	Internment of the San Francisco Japanese This is a site of newspaper articles which are a great place to look for propaganda.	Children of the Camps: The Documentary There is a lot at this site including history and life at the camps.
WWW Links	Japanese Internment: An annotated directory of Internet resources	Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar : Photographs of life in the camps
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution	Calisphere: Japanese American Internment	The War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear was Stronger than Justice
Citizenship Denied: An Integrated Unit on the Japanese American Internment This is a curriculum unit written on the topic. The links at the bottom don't work but everything else is very useful. Look at the timeline!	University of Washington Library: Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project	Asian-Nation The Landscape of Asian America Japanese Internment
	Posters from World War II	WWII Japanese Internment 2 Lots of posters, etc. with propaganda
	Was Internment Constitutional?	WWII & Asian Americans Scroll down in Digital History site for Internment primary sources.
	Prejudice & Propaganda	National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies
Project Documents Japanese Internment Research Document

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Update: March 19, 2007