This is the grave of Charles Sprague. Born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1887, he grew up in a pretty middle class household. His father ran grain elevators. He went to Monmouth College in Illinois but he had to pay for himself and so he worked...
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Hoo boy, this is a complex one. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A proposal to build one of the country's largest wind farms in Idaho is drawing opposition from Japanese Americans. About.
This proposed bill is indeed a no brainer, but unfortunately the Republican Party prioritizes people with no brains, so we will see. So, on a day set aside to remember.
On January 4, 1944, workers in the Minidoka Japanese concentration camp in Idaho went on strike in a short-lived but remarkable moment that demonstrates how workers, even in oppressive conditions, act to defend their perceived rights on the job. First, the so-called "interment camps" were...
We have our first new National Park Service site under Biden (not including him making Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante whole) and it is a much needed one, making another.
This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I.
For today's podcast, I spoke to Connie Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College, about her 2018 book Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. Among the topics we spoke about was why the term "internment camp"...
The Los Angeles Times is subject to a lot of outrage right now for printing letters to the editor that defended placing Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during World War II..
Worth noting that today is the 69th anniversary of the notorious Korematsu v. United States decision, when the Supreme Court ruled for the acceptability of Japanese concentration camps. Early in.