Resilience

The Wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans

When we think about World War II, we often picture a war that happened mostly overseas, and we think of our country’s involvement as primarily positive. But, if you’ve been tuning in to Here’s Where It Gets Interesting for a while, you know that to truly understand American history, we need to take a deeper look.

In our 15-part series, Resilience, we learn more about the strength shown by the 120 thousand Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes, their neighborhoods, their jobs, and their schools.

Sharon and her expert guests talk listeners through the early days of Asian immigration through the attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn about the mass hysteria and propaganda that helped fuel the public’s opinion that removing Japanese Americans from the West Coast was the right course of action.

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Resilience: Your Questions Answered

Join us to hear more about what happened to Japanese Americans in Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, what happened to the assets of the incarcerated, and where you can find more resources, like oral histories, photos, and video compilations.

Resilience: An Interview with George Takei Pt. 2

Listen to an interview on Here's Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon speaks with actor George Takei about his childhood experiences with forced removal and incarcerated camp life.

Resilience: An Interview with George Takei Pt. 1

Listen to an interview on Here's Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon speaks with actor George Takei about his childhood experiences with forced removal and incarcerated camp life.

Resilience: Redress and Reparation

In this final episode on Resilience: The Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans. During the postwar era, a new generation was born to the Nisei as they returned to their lives outside of incarceration camps.

Resilience: The Fear of What Comes Next

Explore what happened when Japanese Americans were told they were free citizens once again with Sharon McMahon on Here's Where It Get's Interesting. Given only a train ticket and twenty-five dollars, the incarcerated did not know what awaited them once they left.

Resilience: All the Way to the Supreme Court

On this episode of Resilience, we will hear more from Professor Lorraine Bannai about Executive Order 9066, Japanese American resistance, and how they were both important to key Supreme Court Cases. Join Sharon McMahon on this episode of Here's Where It Get's Interesting.

Resilience: The Spirit of Resistance

On this episode of Resilience: The Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans, we are continuing our exploration of camp life. Join Sharon McMahon on this episode of Here's Where It Get's Interesting.

Resilience: The Long Days of Camp Life

Today on Resilience, we continue our exploration of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. Join Sharon McMahon as she explores how by the fall of 1942, the military had moved most of the imprisoned Japanese Americans from temporary camps into long-term incarceration barracks.

Resilience: Only What You Can Carry

On today’s episode of Resilience: The Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans, Sharon McMahon talks about the military’s limitations on “enemy aliens” both before and after President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.

Resilience: The Forced Removal of 120 Thousand Japanese Americans

In this episode on Here's Where It Get's interesting, after Pres. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, General John DeWitt issued over a hundred exclusion orders in quick succession, and demanded that all Japanese Americans prepare themselves for being sent to incarceration camps.

Resilience: A Country at War

What happened immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of over 2,400 American servicemen. How did the US government respond and how quickly did they mobilize? What, exactly, became the plan, and how did they carry it out?

Resilience: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

Join Sharon McMahon as she interviews author Craig Nelson, who shares insights on what exactly happened during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.