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Japanese American National Museum

I truly enjoyed my visit to the JANM on the last day of our seminar, and I am thrilled to find out the they have a great website. It is a user friendly website, on the top there are eight tabs.

The 1^st tab is: Visit JANM, which has the location, Museum Hours, General admission (prices)

The 2^nd tab is : Current Exhibitions,  Fighting for  Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”? August 10, 2019-January 5, 2020,  At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America May 25- October 20, 2019, and Common Ground: The Heart of Community ongoing.

The 3^rd tab is: Events Calendar, it contains a long list of great activities and events at the museum. It is shown by month, it has event all the way to December.

The 4^th tab is: Education, it provides links to programs and resources

•  Group Visits
• Educator Resources
• janmKIDS
• Hirasaki National Resource Center
• National Diversity Education Program

The 5^th tab is, Collections and Research, it has the links to JANM

• Museum Collections Online
• Hirasaki National Resource Center
• Watase Media Arts Center

The 6^th tab is: Major Projects, which contains links to great resources

• Discover Nikkei
• National Conferences
• Arts Innovation
• National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
• Remembrance Project

The 7^th tab is: Support JANM

• Membership
• Other Giving Opportunities
• Volunteering
• Young Professionals Network
• Museum Store Online
• Facility Rentals
• Planned Giving | Legacy Society

The 8^th tab is: The online Museum Store.

It is a great website, I would spend a lot of time with my students on The Collections and Research. It contains many great primary sources about Japanese Americans in the United States, but my focus is on California.

The Clara Breed collection, includes more than 300 letters send to Clara from Japanese Americans (her former library patrons in San Diego) from their concentration camps. It gives us a glimpse into their harsh conditions that Japanese Americans had to endure at the hands of their own government in the United States. It shows a digital image of the actual letters or postcards and their transcription.

Stanley Hayami Diary, Stanley (1925-1945) kept this diary from 1941-1944. He was a student from L.A. who was send to the concentration camp in Wyoming where he attended high school. He left Heart Mountain concentration camp (Wyoming) to join the Army. He died in combat in San Terenzo, Italy on April 23, 1945 while his parents remained imprisoned at the concentration camp.

These are only two of the many examples of primary sources available through the Japanese American National Museum.

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