internment
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In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2025
That hollow ache I carried during the early months of internment had shrunk, over the years, to a tiny sliver of suspicion about the very person I was.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
People are more familiar with the incarceration of Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens, but we still do remember the Alien Enemies Act internments as a shameful part of our history.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2025
"The section that will be used is occupied by the dead from a century ago and will not affect any recent internments," FWC said.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024
Jay Tidmarsh, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, suggested the World War II internments as a possible comparable framework.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
The populace has not molested alien enemies, and their government has not indulged in wholesale internments of enemies’ subjects.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher
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Farewell to Manzanar
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