Western Region Confinement Sites Education Project – Regional Perspectives on Western U.S. Confinement Sites

The National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc (NJAHS) in collaboration with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Valor in the Pacific NPS, other sites of significance, and Japanese American community of experts, will implement “Regional Perspectives on Western U.S. Confinement Sites,” – a professional development training for classroom educators,  NPS educators and historians, and park partners connected to Confinement sites to collaborate on telling the regional story  (West Coast and Hawaii) of the incarceration experience of Japanese Americans. This project is designed to engage a core representative group to produce teacher workshops, with accompanying  resources  (primary documents, secondary sources, photographs, oral histories, and artifacts)  that will provide a regional perspective and allow the Pacific Area Confinement Sites and their education partners to present the fuller story of the Japanese American experience and the public responses of the time.