On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. About 120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental U.S. were put in ten internment ...

In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

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In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

There is perhaps nothing more American than the assertion that life is what you make of it. Such is the ideology underlying the proverbial American dream — that each of us is the master of our destiny ...

Trump's announcement confirms that the attack on birthright citizenship is aimed at paving the way for sweeping attacks on ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ... of violating President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order authorizing the incarceration of more than 120,000 ...

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Colorado’s Most Endangered Places list includes places as large as the Colorado State Capitol in Denver or as small as the Feminilas Building in El Rito,” Endangered Places Director Katie Peterson ...