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While in our temporary location in building 700, the LPC Library's physical collection (circulating books, DVDs, CDs, and other materials) will be housed in a separate location on campus and will NOT be directly accessible to the public. Requests for these items can be made using your "My Library Account" in the library catalog or through a librarian or library staff member.
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E-Books
The LPC Library's Ebscohost eBook Collection contains many titles on the Japanese American Internment. Search the Library Catalog for your specific subject and you will see many titles that are indicated as e-books. These are all available full-text by clicking on the link view now in the Search Results window.
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Call Numbers
The LPC Library, like most academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress classification system (LC).
Books on literature, authors, and literary criticism have a call # starting with the letter P. Shakespeare resources are located in the call number range PR2750-PR3112.
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Books in the LPC Library
Use the Library Catalog to search for titles in the LPC Library collection.
Possible topics to research:
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- Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 - Japanese Americans
- Japanese Americans - Biography
- Manzanar War Relocation Center
Selected Titles
Born Free and Equal by Call Number: D769.8.A6 A28 2002ISBN: 1893343057Publication Date: 2002Text and photographs by Ansel Adams. Based on the book by U.S. Camera.
The following list provides an example of materials we have available on the Japanese American Internment in the LPC Library. Search the Library Catalog for more resources.
Manzanar by Call Number: D769.8 .A6 W44 2008ISBN: 9780738558080Publication Date: 2008Pictorial work from the Images of America series.
Remembering Manzanar by Call Number: D769.8.A6 C67 2002ISBN: 0618067787Publication Date: 2002Uses firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks to tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government-run internments camps during World War II. Based on firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks, this is the story of the Japanese American children who were evacuated with their families to live in government-run internment camps during World War II.
Farewell to Manzanar by Call Number: D769.8 .A6 H68 2002ISBN: 0618216200Publication Date: 2002Biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how it has influenced her life.
Experiences of Japanese American Women During and after World War II by ISBN: 9780739192429Publication Date: 2014- The Price of Prejudice: The Japanese-American Relocation Center in Utah during World War II byCall Number: D769.8.A6 A77 1997Publication Date: 1997Originally published in 1962 by Utah State University.
Second edition contains 85 historic photographs and an afterword by Jane Beckwith not found in original edition. 
Just Americans by Call Number: D753.8 .A83 2006ISBN: 9781592401987Publication Date: 2006Describes the pivotal contributions of the Japanese-American 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team of World War II, a segregated unit of Japanese-American soldiers that became the nation's most decorated unit.
From Concentration Camp to Campus by Call Number: D769.8 .A6 A94 2004ISBN: 025202933XPublication Date: 2004Allan W. Austin's From Concentration Camp to Campus examines the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council's work and the challenges it faced in an atmosphere of pervasive wartime racism. He also reveals the voices of students as they worked to construct their own meaning for their wartime experiences under pressure of forced and total assimilation.
Native American Aliens by Call Number: KF7224.5 .C64 1985ISBN: 0313247110Publication Date: 1985Discusses the legal aspects and civil rights of Japanese Americans that were placed in internment camps.
The Colonel and the Pacifist by Call Number: D769.8.A6 D44 2004ISBN: 0874807891Publication Date: 2004Tells the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II from the perspective of two very different people: the Army colonel in charge of the relocations and a young student who was incarcerated at Tule Lake.
Unequal Sisters by Call Number: HQ1410 .U54 2008ISBN: 9780415958400Publication Date: 2007Chapter 25: Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940. Chapter 26: Japanese American Women during World War II.
Justice at War by Call Number: KF7224.5 .I76 1993ISBN: 0520083121Publication Date: 1993A look at the breakdown in the American legal system which allowed Japanese American citizens to be imprisoned without trials during World War II.- Through a Diamond byCall Number: GV863.A1 N34 2001ISBN: 0945213395Publication Date: 2001Far more than a history of the experience of Japanese American baseball. It is a compassionate description of the immigrant experience of the Japanese people as seen through the prism of American's grand game of baseball.
