Dnext

December 19, 2023 1:48pm

USS Chesapeake and the Battle of Boston Harbor

In the summer of 1813 USS Chesapeake left Boston harbor to challenge HMS Shannon. The battle was exceedingly bloody and incredibly brief, and gave birth to one of the navy’s most famous mottos

Breakfast Video

#History #WarOf1812 #AmericanHistory #EnglishHistory #Boston #MA

7sleepers

March 16, 2023 5:21pm

“‘Internment’ is a euphemism that trivializes the government’s actions. Officials employed such benign-sounding language to obscure that the U.S. was incarcerating Americans whose only ‘crime’ was that they looked like the enemy.” #History #AmericanHistory #WW2 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-16/japanese-american-internment-incarceration-wwii-los-angeles-times-style

No, my Japanese American parents were not 'interned' during WWII. They were incarcerated

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

steelnomad

December 30, 2022 8:25pm

Rohwer Heritage Site, Tillar, Arkansas

VISITING WHAT REMAINS OF THE Japanese prison camp Rohwer is a sobering and eye-opening experience...

Rohwer was one of the longest-operating internment camps; Between 1942 and 1945, more than 8,000 Japanese Americans were held on its grounds...

Life at the camp was very difficult for the people detained there. The barracks had no comforts, not even running water. The bathroom and kitchen areas were all communal.

#history #HumanRights #USA #AmericanHistory #injustice #racism

Rohwer Heritage Site

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.