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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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Least Visited National Park Sites (6/6)

26. Fort Union National Monument

Where: New Mexico - 95 miles from Santa Fe

2019 Visitors: 11063

From 1851-1891, Fort Union was the largest military fort in the region and acted as an agent of political and cultural change in the Southwest. The fort was created to bring together several outposts after the Mexican-American War and to get away from the ‘vice and extravagance’ of Santa Fe. Fort Union remained in operation until railroads brought an end to the use of the Santa Fe trail.

27. Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

Where: Maine - Border with Canada

2019 Visitors: 11613

Saint Croix Island was where the French presence in North America began. During the winter of 1604-05, Pierre Dugua’s expedition lost 35 or its 79 men to starvation. When spring arrived, natives traded food with the colonists to help them regain their strength.

28. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Where: Montana and North Dakota - 294 miles from Billings

2019 Visitors: 12967

Fort Union was the most important fur trade post on the Upper Missouri River from 1828-1867. Seven Northern Plains Tribes exchanged furs here for goods from around the world, including guns and cloth. Every year, about $100,000 (1.8 million dollars today) in merchandise passed through this post.

29. Minidoka National Historic Site

Where: Idaho - 131 miles from Boise

2019 Visitors: 13647

Minidoka was one of the ten camps where people of Japanese heritage were sent during WWII. Families were sent to Minidoka where they would have to wait months for sewage systems and where homes were hastily constructed from greenwood and tar paper. Most of the people who were sent here were not used to the desert environment and did not have the proper clothes for the extreme weather.

30. Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Where: Ohio - 18 miles from Dayton

2019 Visitors: 14106

Colonel Charles Young became one of the leading figures of his time, despite rife racism in the post-Civil War United States. Despite being born to enslaved parents, Young served a highly distinguished military career, becoming a lieutenant colonel in 1916. Young was also the first African American National Park superintendent when his troops were tasked with running Sequoia National Park in California in 1903.

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May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island).

The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.

This Web portal is a collaborative project of the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

150th Anniversary of the Purchase of Alaska (National Archives Flickr Album)

Alaskan Digitization Project (National Archives Flickr Album)

Blog posts from the American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) on Asian Americans

Library of Congress Pinterest board

Smithsonian Institution Pinterest board

Works by Asian American Artists from the Collection -- National Gallery of Art Pinterest board

National Archives

100 Milestone Documents - The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

100 Milestone Documents - Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)

An Alleged Wife: One Immigrant in the Chinese Exclusion Era (Prologue Magazine, Spring 2004)

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on Flickr

Images of Japanese Internment at the FDR Presidential Library

Letters from the Middle Kingdom: The Origins of America's China Policy (Prologue Magazine, Winter 2002)

Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War (Prologue Magazine, Summer 2002)

National Endowment for the Humanities

Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion

Crossing Cultures: the Art of Manga in Hawaii

Preserving Asian-American History and Culture

Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910

National Gallery of Art

Chinese Porcelain at the National Gallery of Art

Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (National Gallery of Art)

In the Tower: Nam June Paik

National Park Service

The Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Initiative

Asian American and Pacific Islander Travel Itinerary

National Register of Historic Places

Kalaupapa National Historic Park

Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site

Manzanar National Historic Site

Manzanar National Historic Site Online Exhibition

Minidoka National Monument

Tule Lake Unit of the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument

Library of Congress

The Asian and Pacific Islander Experience in America

Asian Collections: An Illustrated Guide

The Beginning of Asian Collections

Country Study by Continent: Asia

Digitized Newspapers: Topics from Chronicling America -- Krakatoa Volcano Eruption -- Theodore Roosevelt's 'Great White Fleet' -- Russo-Japanese War

The Fahnestock South Sea Collection

Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling Video Collection (Finding Aid)

Harold C. Conklin Philippine Collection

Japanese Prints: Seasons and Places (Flickr site)

Korean Bibliography

Philippine Bibliography

Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection

South Asian Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture (Finding Aid)

Vasant Panchami: A Celebration of Learning

Smithsonian Institution

Celebrate! Where Asia Meets America

Online exhibitions of Asian art and culture at the Freer | Sackler museums of Asian Art

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II Exhibition (Smithsonian Institution)

World Digital Library: Imagery

Polynesian Fertility Rites

Samoans Posed in Front of a Hut with Palm Fronds and Thatched Roof

The Ukulele: Portuguese Gift to Hawaii

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Competition Drawing

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rabbitcruiser · 9 months

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On August 10, 1942, incarcerees arrived at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. The number of incarcerees reached 7,318 at its maximum population.

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The Minidoka War Relocation Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979.

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Day of Remembrance

February 19th is a significant date for the Japanese American community. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military zones established in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII. This led to the forced removal and incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, who had to abandon their jobs, their homes, and their lives to be sent to one of ten concentration camps scattered in desolate, remote regions of the country.

No Japanese Americans were ever charged, much less convicted, of espionage or sabotage against the United States. Yet they were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned for years, simply for having the “face of the enemy.”

Every February, the Japanese American community commemorates Executive Order 9066 as a reminder of the impact the incarceration experience has had on our families, our community, and our country. It is an opportunity to educate others on the fragility of civil liberties in times of crisis, and the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting the rights and freedoms of all.

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Japanese American Day of Remembrance (DOR)

February 19th is a significant date for the Japanese American community. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military zones established in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII. This led to the forced removal and incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, who had to abandon their jobs, their homes, and their lives to be sent to one of ten concentration camps scattered in desolate, remote regions of the country.

No Japanese Americans were ever charged, much less convicted, of espionage or sabotage against the United States. Yet they were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned for years, simply for having the “face of the enemy.”

Every February, the Japanese American community commemorates Executive Order 9066 as a reminder of the impact the incarceration experience has had on our families, our community, and our country. It is an opportunity to educate others on the fragility of civil liberties in times of crisis, and the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting the rights and freedoms of all.

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On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court put an end to Japanese internment camps with its ruling in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo. In this case, the court stated the War Relocation Authority "has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure."

The following month, Japanese American “evacuees” from the West Coast were finally allowed to return to their homes. The last camp did not close until March 1946.

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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rabbitcruiser · 11 months

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The United States government incarcerated over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. Construction began on the site on June 5, 1942, by the Idaho-based Morrison-Knudsen Company.

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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Minidoka War Relocation Center ceased operation on October 28, 1945.

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Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state on July 3, 1890.

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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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