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Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Through a set of three classroom videos, examine the actions taken by suffragists in 1917 as they fought to win the right to vote. Students will meet Rebecca, a historical character from Takoma Park, Maryland, who
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents a filmed version of its on-the-floor program, The Suffragist.
This set of three classroom videos examines the actions taken by suffragists in 1917 as they fought to win the right to vote. Students meet Rebecca, a histo
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
The role of religion in the formation and development of the United States is at the heart of this one-year exhibition that explores the themes of religious diversity, freedom, and growth from the colonial era through the 1840s. National treasures from the Museum’s own collection are on view, s
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities
Students will gain historical reasoning skills by studying primary sources and comparing them to secondary sources. They will become more familiar with the conditions in Japanese American concentration camps through the personal writings of Stanley Hayami, a high school student who was incarcer
Resource Type(s):
Primary Sources
During WWII almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted from the West Coast regions that were deemed military exclusion zones, moved cities and states away, and controlled under severe restrictions. We can better understand the lives, experiences, and stories of these people by studying objec
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities
Students will learn about the personal experiences of Japanese American incarcerees during World War II and will practice communicating information concisely by developing an original comic.
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
Nearly seven decades after the beginning of World War II, the Congressional Gold Medal was bestowed on the Japanese American men who served with bravery and valor on the battlefield, even while their families were held in internment camps by the very country for which they fought. Through videos,
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Artifacts
The reprint of Fortune Magazine’s “Issei, Nisei, Kibei”, which reviewed the war relocation program, reached a wide swathe of the United States and confronted Americans with the severe social issues taking place on the home front. Awareness of the prejudicial treatment of these specific citi
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
This Butsudan-Buddhist altar was made from scrap lumber in Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. Buddhism was among the religions that was practiced in the internment camps. However, it was not formally recognized in the camp or marked with a specific house of worship within the internment camp g
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
These identification cards were issued to residents of the internment camps. In order to exercise control and maintain surveillance over the population, internees were given family numbers and their physical characteristics were recorded.
Reading Level:
Pre-School,Early Elementary School
A humorous and poignant fictional story, this book is also an eye-opening view of the women's suffrage movement.
Reading Level:
High School
A look at Plessy v. Ferguson, the legal proceedings that had a large impact on African Americans and preceded the Civil Rights Movement.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A close look at life in Manzanar Relocation Camp through diaries, journals, memoirs, photographs, and news accounts
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Describes how the Constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constituional Convention of 1787.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A young girl and her family visit her grandfather's grave at Manzanar War Relocation Camp to say good-bye one last time. Color and black-and-white illustrations bring to life the story of the internment of Japanese Americans.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A creative children's book full of fun facts and information about U.S. Presidents in our history.
Reading Level:
Adult,High School,Middle School
The biography of Stanley Hayami, a Japanese American internee and soldier, told through his diary and letters
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Emi, a young Japanese American, realizes that although she is forced to leave her home and school, she will always have the memories of her friends in her heart.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School,High School
The diary entries of children from one particular class in an internment camp in Topaz, Utah, reveal what daily life was like for students. The entries are placed in historical context, and are accompanied by many photographs illustrating the experiences of these students and other Japanese Ameri
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
The story of a 12 year old prisoner in one of America's Japanese internment camps during World War II
