What: The Birmingham Public Library will host A Journey with Jan Jarboe Russell, a talk and book signing by Jan Jarboe Russell, author of the New York Times bestseller The Train to Crystal City: FDR's ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the opening pages of the new book “Shell Song,” Shigeki Fujimoto was enjoying a peaceful morning with his family. But on Dec. 7, 1941, the peace was shattered when Japan ...
In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to ...
Author and former Express-News columnist Jan Jarboe Russell’s exquisitely researched and riveting “The Train to Crystal City” breaks open a closed door of complicated American history. Crystal City, ...
SANTA CRUZ — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” died ...
DENVER — There’s a historic book making its way around the country. It not only recalls a painful time in U.S. history, but it teaches lessons that are relevant today. It’s full of 125,000 Japanese ...