Lectures & Discussions
Author Discussion—"Infamy" and "The Train to Crystal City"
Lectures & Discussions
Author Discussion—"Infamy" and "The Train to Crystal City"
Utilizing survivor interviews, private letters and memoirs, and historical archives, Richard Reeves’ Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II is a sweeping narrative of the U.S. government’s forced imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II tells the shocking and never-before-heard story of a secret, FDR-approved World War II prisoner exchange program in which German, Japanese, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children were traded for “more important” American prisoners of war stuck behind enemy lines.
Both authors will discuss their works. Copies of both books will be available for purchase and signing.
Free with museum admission. RSVPs are recommended using the link below.
Both books are available from the JANM Store:
Infamy
The Train to Crystal City
Utilizing survivor interviews, private letters and memoirs, and historical archives, Richard Reeves’ Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II is a sweeping narrative of the U.S. government’s forced imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II tells the shocking and never-before-heard story of a secret, FDR-approved World War II prisoner exchange program in which German, Japanese, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children were traded for “more important” American prisoners of war stuck behind enemy lines.
Both authors will discuss their works. Copies of both books will be available for purchase and signing.
Free with museum admission. RSVPs are recommended using the link below.
Both books are available from the JANM Store:
Infamy
The Train to Crystal City