Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project began August 13, 1942, out of fear Germany would build the bomb first. The real threat came from inside Los Alamos.
Quiet Americans
Uncovering Japanese American stories: History. Injustice. Resistance. Achievements.
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Heart Mountain War Relocation Center
Heart Mountain, Wyoming: the WRA camp that became a city of 10,700 Japanese Americans, chosen for being close to nowhere.
Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo children were punished for speaking their language. Years later, that same language became an unbreakable WWII military code.
Santa Anita Riot
On August 4, 1942, a routine search for contraband at the Santa Anita Assembly Center escalated into a riot involving 2,000 Japanese American detainees.
Gila River War Relocation Center
Gila River was considered one of America’s least oppressive concentration camps. But even Eleanor Roosevelt left appalled after seeing it for herself.
Willie Ito
Inside an incarceration camp, a Sears catalog was Willie Ito’s sketchbook. Those childhood drawings at Topaz eventually led to Disney, Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, and decades later, helped him tell the story of incarceration to a new generation through Hello, Maggie!
Estelle Ishigo
Artist Estelle Ishigo voluntarily entered a Japanese American concentration camp during World War II, where she found acceptance and created some of the most important visual records of incarceration.
Morris Chang
Morris Chang was passed over for CEO at Texas Instruments before founding TSMC, the company that transformed Taiwan into the global leader in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Karl Bendetsen
Karl Bendetsen conceived, drafted, and processed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the mass removal of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Decades later, he denied responsibility while lying about his own identity.