Internment

You might stay home one more summer. You might head to the cabin. You might even mask up and fly somewhere exotic. But wherever you go, be sure to take a book. Our summer fiction section offers more than 30 suggestions for ’tweens, teens and adults, lovers of mysteries, novels or any good story well told.

If you think the best National Historic Landmarks are located out east, think again.

Imagine this: boxes of family photos, wood carvings, landscape paintings, handmade jewelry, and other items being put up for auction.

The Japanese families in Los Gatos California were interned in Tule Lake concentration camps. My parents were gleeful about it.

A group of Bainbridge Island Japanese-Americans under army escort at a Seattle dock where they were entrained for the Manzanar, CA internment camp. Friends and relatives, soon to be "evacuated," bid them farewell. Photograph, March 1942. U6343436ACME/CREDIT: BETTMANN-UPI

The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.

Megyn Kelly pushes back on the argument made by Carl Higbie.

Today, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is a well-known part of history. But the hard reality nobody seems to talk about is that this wasn’t some unique, isolated event. Governments were rounding up citizens from enemy countries and locking them inside camps on every corner of the world. This wasn’t something

Seventy years ago, Fumiko Hayashida was a face in the crowd, one of 227 Japanese Americans forced to leave Bainbridge Island during World War II. But as she awaited imprisonment with a baby in her arms, a news photographer took her picture. Hayashida died Sunday in Seattle. She was 103.

Numerous authors have written about the period of Japanese American internment during World War II; here are 15 titles worth checking out.