A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution - This site explores the period of U.S. history when, "racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between the rights of a citizen versus the power of the state."

Over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft, and black women also volunteered in large numbers. While serving in the Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, they experienced discrimination and segregation but met the

Anne Frank the Writer: an Unfinished Story - Anne's diary, published in 1947 and eventually translated into almost 70 languages, is for many young readers the first encounter with the history of Nazi Germany. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne wro

Cool site that brings a bit of everyday life during WWII into our time. Includes sections for both Teachers and Parents to work with students. For teachers, there are Lesson Plans, Printable Worksheets, and Online Activities all geared to UK standards. Ma

Everyone I know has played spy at one time or another. Let students see the practical side, and how technology and mathematics helped break codes during World War II. Take a virtual tour of Bletchley House, where code-breaking operations were housed, and

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites - The main focus is on the War Relocation Authority's relocation centers, but Department of Justice and U.S. Army facilities where Japanese Americans were interned a

First World War.com - A multimedia history of world war one

Hezzie Goes to War: World War I through the Eyes of a Mid-Missourian - For students who communicate with servicemen abroad, parallels can be drawn between current world conflicts and conflicts of the past. This website gives some insight into one s

The San Francisco News, for the first six months of 1942, carried almost daily reports of FBI and police sweeps, and the various proclamations, plans - and restrictions to civil liberties - issued by Lieutenant-General John L. DeWitt at the Presidio of Sa

The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Included in the project i

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was gripped by war hysteria. This was especially strong along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes, and busines

A rich, broad collection focusing on individual experiences compiled by C. John Yu, who notes of the perceived threat that triggered the tragedy: "In the May it serve as a constant reminder of our past so that Americans in the future will never again be d

JARDA is a digital "thematic collection" within the CDL's OAC documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. Curators, archivists, and librarians from ten participating OAC contributing institutions selected a broad ran

The Block Museum at Northwestern University features the art created by prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during their incarceration during the Holocaust. You can browse the art by media, artist, or location. Included are biographies of the artists that e

Life Interrupted - The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

A fact sheet about Navajo code talkers and how they took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945.

Beautiful, primary source site in both English and French. The stories of Holocaust orphans who came to Canada after World War II. The Site consists of three sections: 1) Orphans' Stories: text and graphics, as well as audio and video comments by the orph

In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans. As the film shows, most of the Emperor's inner circle was