Colloquium for History Majors: "Japanese American Internment Historical Perspective"
16A:051:004
Fall 2006
Professor Stephen Vlastos
Prepared by Chiaki Sakai, Japanese Studies Librarian (chiaki-sakai@uiowa.edu)
- Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Iowa
| Primary Sources |
★ Primary Source
A firsthand account of an historical event or time period. Primary sources include diaries, correspondence, interviews, drawings, newspapers, autobiographies, photographs, government documents, etc.
Library Research: Using Primary Sources from UCBerkeley Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html
Primary Sources Research from Yale University Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/instruction/primsource.html
Researching a Topic in Four Steps from Yale University Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/instruction/topic.html
Using Primary Sources on the Web
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
| Microfilms |
Japanese camp papers Main Media Services Film 29786 reel 1-22
Santa Anita pacemaker (1-1)
Communiqué (1-2) → Denson tribune (1-4)
Tanforan totalizer (1-3)
The Rohwer outpost (2, 3) → Rohwer relocator (4-1)
Poston official bulletin (4-3)
Poston Christian church (4-4)
Poston Red Cross news (4-5)
Official information bulletin (4-6) → Official daily press bulletin (4-2) → Poston chronicle (5, 6)
Gila news-courier (7, 8) → Gila bulletin (9-1)
Manzanar free press (9, 10)
[Information bulletin (Tule Lake, Calif.)]→ The Tulean dispatch (12)
→ Daily Tulean dispatch (12) → Tulean dispatch daily (12) → Tulean dispatch (Newell, Calif. : 1943) (12) → The Tule Lake WRA Center information bulletin (13-1) → The Newell star (11)
Bulletin (15-1) → Granada pioneer (13-2, 14)
Kakushu jiji = Colorado times (15-2)
Rockii shimpo (16)
The Minidoka irrigato (17, 18)
Topaz times (19, 20)
Heart Mountain sentinel (21, 22)
| Internet Resources |
Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (American Memory, Library of Congress) 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/index.html
242 original negatives and 209 photographic prints documenting Japanese American Internment at Manzanar by Ansel Adams.
Photograps are searchable and also browsable by subject (LC Subject Headings).
Ansel Adams' book "Born free and equal, photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California" is also available in PDF format. UI Libraries has a copy in Special Collection Special Collections x-Collection F870.J3 A57.
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project 
http://www.densho.org/
Registration is required to use the archive. It will take a few days to receive your password.
More than 240 interviews (with glossary and transcript), and approximately 2,100 photos and documents (with scanned image and full text) are available.
Browsing by topic in archives (Incarceration Camps → Publication), you will find selected issues of Manzanar Free Press, Tulean Dispatch, and Minidoka Irrigator.
Discover Nikkei 
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/
Developed by the International Nikkei Research Project, a multi-year project coordinated by the Japanese American National Museum and supported by the Nippon Foundation.
Interview video clips of Nikkei people are available under Real People section.
Other resources available on this site include Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration, Directory of Nikkei Collections, and Military Experience Database.
Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration is based on
Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas : an illustrated history of the Nikkei ( Main Oversize FOLIO E29.J3 E53 2002 ).
Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org
Museum Collections Online
http://www.janm.org/collections/online/list
Includes Clara Breed Collection (correspondance), George Hoshida Collection (visual diary), Estelle Ishigo Collection (drawings, sketches, and watercolors), and Henry Sugimoto Collection (paintings).
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive,
Online Archive of California
This thematic collection is available throught the California Digital Library's (CDL) Online Archive of California (OAC). Contributing members include Japanese American National Museum, UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, UCLA's Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, etc.
Over 10,000 digital images and 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories are available along with 28 finding aids.
Use finding aids to find digitized documents. Look for
icon to locate them in search results.
★ Finding Aid
A descriptive list of items in an archive, special collection, library, or museum.
Japanese American Veterans Collection (University of Hawai'i at Manoa Libraries) http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/archives/mss/aja/index.htm
This collection documents the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during the World War II. Many Japanese Americans from Hawai'i joined the U.S. troops. Some resources are made available online.
Digital Resources
National Archives Documents Relating to the 442nd RCT
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/archives/mss/aja/nara/index.htm
Chaplain Higuchi Wartime Correspondence
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/archives/mss/aja/higuchi/index.htm
Signal Corps Photographs
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/archives/mss/aja/signalcorps/index.htm
Other useful information available at the website includes finding aids, bibliography of related resources at UH Library, web resources, list of organizations, and timeline from the Hawaii War Records Depository.
Chicago Tribune - Proquest Historical Newspapers 
Contains full-text access to the Chicago Tribune dating from 1849-1985.
New York Times - Proquest Historical Newspapers 
Contains full-text access to the New York Times dating from 1851 (New York Daily Times) to the present.
| How to Cite E-Resources |
University of Iowa, Department of History, Teaching and Writing Center
http://www.uiowa.edu/~histwrit/style_and_citation.htm
Research Guides Section at the UI Libraries Website
The Chicago manual of style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide from the Chicago Manual of Style Online
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
How to Cite Electronic Sources from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html
How to Cite Densho
http://www.densho.org/default.asp?path=howtocite.asp
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