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The Library of Congress updated the Subject heading Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 to Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overivew of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (2000)
From the National Park Service (NPS); writen by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord. and R. Lord.
Densho Encyclopedia
More than 650 article about the forced remove and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Essay: Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II (JARDA project)
Essay written by the University of California in 2005.
How an Eagle Feels When His Wings are Clipped and Caged (Rebecca K. Sharp)
Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II. Published in Prologue Magazine from the National Archives.
Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Campus (DPLA)
An online exhibition with accompanying text. hapman, Stephanie, Jessica Keener, Nicole Sobota, and Courtney Whitmore. Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps. Digital Public Library of America. July 2015. https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment
WWII Incarceration (Part III), Densho
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