Good Men Project

The Black Internment Camps You Never Heard About

America’s history of interning Japanese Americans and immigrants during World War II is well known. From 1942–1945, American policy was to imprison those of Japanese descent in response to the Pearl ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California desert Visitors to Manzanar National Historic Site will be able ...
The New Yorker

A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps

In the nineteen-twenties, United States officials began preparing for the possibility of war in the Pacific, and the consequences this would have for the territory of Hawaii. About a third of Hawaii’s ...
San Antonio Current

Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump’s immigration crackdown

Kazumu Julio Cesar Naganuma (left) and Hiroshi Shimizu stand in front of photos at the My Story Museum showing the camp where they were imprisoned. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Crystal City Pilgrimage ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors, including mass graves, the smoldering ...