Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation: Resources

The National Park Service has compiled an extremely convenient list of World War II-era terms related to the internment of Japanese Americans. Feel free to use this as a supplement to our "Glossary."

The National Archives really outdid itself by creating an electronically accessible Database of Japanese American Evacuees, which allows you to search for the names and other personal details of people imprisoned in WRA relocation camps.

This is the Japanese American Veterans Association's website, not some personal blog about coffee and yogurt. It hosts a digitized document project that contains all of the official pronouncements by the government related to Japanese internment.

Passing Poston is a documentary film recounting the stories of four prisoners held in the Poston relocation camp. It examines its subjects' lives in the years after their release. Grab a tissue.

Another documentary film, this one with a different vibe. To Be Takei is a biographical film about actor, comedian, and activist George Takei, who spent part of his childhood in the confines of a WRA relocation camp. You'll want to grab a tissue for this one, too, but mostly because you'll be laugh-crying.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's Farewell to Manzanar provides a firsthand account of life in the internment camps from the perspective of a young girl. It might be a YA memoir, but it ain't no beach book.

This is a romantic novel by David Guterson. Set in the postwar 1950s, it tells the story of a white American World War II veteran and reporter who carries on a love affair with a woman married to a Japanese American on trial for murder. It's a snapshot of social tensions leading up to and then following the imprisonment of Japanese Americans. There's even an equally romantic movie adaptation of the same name, if movies are more your thing.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of E.O. 9066, NBC News pays tribute to those who suffered because of it.

This article from The Saturday Evening Post examines the climate of anti-Asian racism in the time between the two world wars, revealing that prejudice against Japanese Americans existed in the United States long before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Not exactly a light read, but an important one nonetheless.

Here we have an excerpt from the Ken Burns documentary about the National Park Service that focuses on the stories of people who were imprisoned in one of the most famous camps, Manzanar. It's brought to us by the Public Broadcasting System, that very important educational resource. Thank you, PBS, for everything you do.

Uh, we mean specific. This great post by The Atlantic includes a 16-minute color film about the Japanese American relocation. Definitely a document of its time, its rhetoric is super 1950s, but its images are incredibly revealing about the living conditions in the internment camps.

National Public Radio interviews Japanese Americans at the National Archives during an exhibition of the actual E.O. 9066 and Civil Liberties Act. Read about and listen to their responses as they saw two documents that changed their lives forever.

Telling Their Stories is an oral history project that collects interviews between elders and students. Presented by the Urban School of San Francisco, it contains a section dedicated solely to the stories of Japanese Americans who experienced imprisonment during the 1940s.

Smithsonian magazine provides an extensive slideshow of historical photographs that traces the displacement of Japanese Americans. Documented by famous photographer Dorothea Lange, many of these images are iconic reminders of a homegrown injustice.

Here we have another collection of photographs documenting the incarceration of Japanese Americans, this time captured by another famous photographer, Ansel Adams. Known mostly for capturing images of geographical landmarks, Adams' photographs of Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar is a captivating look at America's cultural landscape.