Available through a number of digital repositories, the Bancroft library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Bancroft library’s collection of more than 530,000 archival documents related to Japanese American evacuation and resettlement.
Database of archives of the Brethren Hostel, where many Japanese Americans temporarily lodged after leaving camp to resettle in Illinois.
Online database with over 2,000 archival collections related to California’s history.
Possesses both physical and digital archival materials that document the city of Chicago’s history.
Collection of personal histories detailing the experiences of Japanese Americans living in Chicago.
Contains a selection of digital and physical archival collections related to Chicago’s history. This library also contains the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, which focuses specifically on South Side and Black history in Chicago.
Set of collections related to Japanese American history that was compiled from all twenty-three California state university archives.
This collection contains full copies of the Chicago-based pictorial magazines Nisei Vue (1948-50) and Scene (1949).
Digital repository with the most comprehensive collection of archival, literary, and scholarly documents related to Japanese American history. Densho has a wealth of other resources as well, including a registry of names and numerous resources for genealogical research.
Hired by the U.S. government to put together a photographic record of Japanese American incarceration, Dorothea Lange’s collection provides images that provide a window into the history of mass removal and incarceration.
Possesses a collection of archival materials associated with the Hyde Park area in Chicago, which became home to many Japanese Americans after they were released from incarceration camps.
Created by historian Kazuko Nakane, this collection consists of a number of interviews with issei living in California’s Pajaro valley between 1900 and 1942.
These photo collections from the Japanese American National Museum provide a window into what life was like in the United State’s concentration camps.
The first museum in the United States to be dedicated exclusively to Japanese American history, JANM possesses over 130 years worth of archival material.
Collection of over eighty oral histories produced by the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) and presented in the Alphawood Gallery.
Contains a wide selection of archival collections and material that document the history of Chicago’s Japanese American community.
Rebuilding Japanese American Families, Communities, and Civil Rights in the Resettlement Era
Collection of 42 filmed oral histories that specifically address the history of resettlement.
This family’s photo collection features images from their lives in California where they owned a set of greenhouses and a nursery.
An exhibit that brings together a collection of archival material to tell the story of Japanese American farm labor camps during World War II.
Provides a set of stories related to that of Japanese Americans’ lives in California, this archival collection highlights the lives of manongs’ and their descendents’ migration and lives in California.
Produced by Full Spectrum Features, this site acts as a kind of prequel to Resettlement by telling the story of an issei man who is forced to close down his grocery store before being loaded into a bus and taken to an incarceration camp.
Produced by the Japanese American Services Committee, this site traces the multigenerational journeys of three families to tell the story of World War II incarceration and resettlement in Chicago.
Produced by the Japanese American Services Committee, this site shines a light on the Japanese American redress movement and the contributions of Chicagoans to the national effort.
Provides a digital narrative coupled with archival material that tells the story of incarceration.
Recounts the story of how the United States government decided to incarcerate 70,000 U.S. citizens and 50,000 permanent residents because of their Japanese heritage.
Provides activities and resources for learners of all ages that make learning about the Japanese American experience engaging and exciting.
Japanese American Internment through a Government Lens – The Unwritten Record
Blog post by National Archives and Records Administration’s, dedicated to special media holdings. The blog features information on fascinating finds, new accessions, preservation projects, and rediscoveries across the agency’s non-textual holdings.
Longform interactive essay that describes the political history of how Japanese Americans were wrongfully incarcerated.
Interactive map of the concentration camps where people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during WWII.
A digital history project that explores the human impact of the mass incarceration of 120,000 American Japanese during World War II through the visual and textual examination of curated objects.
A web-based visual essay and exhibition of James Numata’s work and legacy, hosted by the Virtual Asian American Art Museum.
Provides short overviews and information on all ten concentration camps.
A community website geared toward providing a space to share, explore and connect to the lives, experiences, perspectives, culture, identity and history of Nikkei.