Showing posts with label Japanese American Day of Remembrance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese American Day of Remembrance. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2016

Japanese American Day of Remembrance, 2016 (and unintended consequences)

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Serendipity is an interesting thing. As noted in last night's post , a Minneapolis paper just ran an editorial about plans to restore hi...

Save the Fort: a textbook illustration of how historic preservation can link past and present

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It was a distinctive sight: early nineteenth-century fortifications overlooking the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers on what was once the fr...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Trump and Perverse Pearl Harbor Analogies

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Normally, I would reserve the time around the anniversary of Pearl Harbor for posting about the attack itself, rather than the dismaying con...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

How I First Learned About the Internment of Japanese Americans

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It's hard to recall exactly how I first learned of the " Japanese internment ." That is, I know I first learned of it from my ...

Contemplating Cruelty: An Infamous Life Magazine Photo from 1944

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This photograph of an Arizona war worker posing with the skull of a Japanese soldier that her Navy boyfriend had sent her appeared in Life ...

Japanese American Day of Remembrance. A Booklet Shows the Face of Hatred

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Today, though too few of us know it, is the National Japanese American Day of Remembrance , marking the anniversary of the promulgation of ...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Historic Preservation and the Memory of Injustice

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It is always good (and sobering) to be reminded that historic preservation is not only about preserving the beautiful or the architecturall...