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We share the history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II at the site where 14,000 people were unjustly imprisoned between August 1942 and November 1945. See more at www.heartmountain.org
We’re proud of the accomplishments of the Powell HS students in our Smithsonian Democracy in Dialogue program. It’s another example of how our Smithsonian affiliation serves our community.
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Powell students participate in democracy program at Heart Mountain Center
Six Powell High School students examined the role their community played during the 250 years of the American experience in a program at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center this fall.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We’re proud of the accomplishments of the Powell HS students in our Smithsonian Democracy in Dialogue program. It’s another example of how our Smithsonian affiliation serves our community.
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A group of 60 people joined Eric Muller, Judge Kelly Higashi and Gerald Yamada for a tour of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism in Washington Saturday to learn about the legal history of World War II incarceration.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A group of 60 people joined Eric Muller, Judge Kelly Higashi and Gerald Yamada for a tour of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism in Washington Saturday to learn about the legal history of World War II incarceration.
Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp by Douglas W. Nelson is now available for sale on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Kindle. Check it out here:
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Heart Mountain: The History of An American Concentration Camp
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December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp by Douglas W. Nelson is now available for sale on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Kindle. Check it out here:
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If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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Educator Workshops Welcome & Overview - Heart Mountain
Introduction Within months of the December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them native-born U.S. citizens, were forced from their ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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We're at the annual Teaching Primary Sources convention at the @librarycongress to learn how to teach our history better and to use more primary sources. It's great to be here.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We're at the annual Teaching Primary Sources convention at the @librarycongress to learn how to teach our history better and to use more primary sources. It's great to be here.
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
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Donate - Heart Mountain
Donate to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation or the Memory & Justice Endowment Fund to ensure our future.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
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It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
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Catalog
Make donations, begin or renew your membership, or browse the HMWF Store catalogue, which highlights media about Japanese American incarceration by former incarcerees and their descendants as well as ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
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Japanese Americans know better than most people about the corrosive effects of scapegoating immigrants.
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Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Japanese Americans know better than most people about the corrosive effects of scapegoating immigrants.
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Carolyn Takeshita was one of the leaders of the committee that created our permanent exhibit. She passed away at age 88 on Nov. 23. We mourn her loss and honor her contributions. www.monarchsociety.com/obituary/car...
Obituary for Carolyn K. Takeshita at Monarch Society
In Loving Memory. Carolyns obituary is unavailable, but please go in and sign her guestbook.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Carolyn Takeshita was one of the leaders of the committee that created our permanent exhibit. She passed away at age 88 on Nov. 23. We mourn her loss and honor her contributions. www.monarchsociety.com/obituary/car...
Shop our store for The Spinach King, John Seabrook’s account of his grandfather, the founder of Seabrook Farms, the New Jersey farm where hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans found work during World War II. It’s a New York Times top 100 book of the year.
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The Spinach King
They say behind every great fortune there is a great crime. At Seabrook Farms, the troubling American histories of race, immigration, and exploitation arise like weeds from the soil. Great Migration B...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Shop our store for The Spinach King, John Seabrook’s account of his grandfather, the founder of Seabrook Farms, the New Jersey farm where hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans found work during World War II. It’s a New York Times top 100 book of the year.
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Executive director Aura Newlin and JOI coordinator Haruka Takaku toured Laramie's High Iron rail car exhibit with the project's creator Aubrey Edwards and Aura's sister Lena, who developed the section about their grandfather George Sunada's firing from the Union Pacific railroad.
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Executive director Aura Newlin and JOI coordinator Haruka Takaku toured Laramie's High Iron rail car exhibit with the project's creator Aubrey Edwards and Aura's sister Lena, who developed the section about their grandfather George Sunada's firing from the Union Pacific railroad.
Congratulations to Heart Mountain Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi, the recipient of the Japanese Ambassador's Commendation for her leadership in the DC legal community. She's here with Minister Kyoichiro Kawakami, Counselor Kentaro Orita and First Secretary Ryoko Nakanishi.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Congratulations to Heart Mountain Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi, the recipient of the Japanese Ambassador's Commendation for her leadership in the DC legal community. She's here with Minister Kyoichiro Kawakami, Counselor Kentaro Orita and First Secretary Ryoko Nakanishi.
We've been trying to gain title to the historic hospital buildings from the federal government for years. Vandalism such as this threatens their future.
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Vandalism Damages Historic Heart Mountain Building - Heart Mountain
Over the past two months, the historic hospital at the Heart Mountain National Historic Landmark has experienced four separate incidents of vandalism. The federally owned buildings were most recently ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We've been trying to gain title to the historic hospital buildings from the federal government for years. Vandalism such as this threatens their future.
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Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, we were able to build the Mineta-Simpson Institute, which is dedicated to amplifying the examples set by Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson in public service. They first met behind the barbed wire at Heart Mountain.
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Two Boys Bonded in a Japanese Incarceration Camp. Their Friendship Changed Everything.
A Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, we were able to build the Mineta-Simpson Institute, which is dedicated to amplifying the examples set by Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson in public service. They first met behind the barbed wire at Heart Mountain.
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Sarah Mattox worked with the diaries of Heart Mountain incarceree Kara Kondo to create the Heart Mountain Suite. Learn more about the Whatcom Chorale's upcoming performance this weekend.
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Whatcom Chorale pays tribute to the 'unbroken spirit' of 120K Japanese Americans | Cascadia Daily News
'Lest We Forget' (Nov. 22–23) includes a reprisal of Sarah Mattox's 'Heart Mountain Suite'
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sarah Mattox worked with the diaries of Heart Mountain incarceree Kara Kondo to create the Heart Mountain Suite. Learn more about the Whatcom Chorale's upcoming performance this weekend.
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We agree with World Atlas: Cody is an overlooked gem of the Rockies. Come visit us and see the rest of Cody, too, such as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and historic Irma Hotel.
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8 of the Most Overlooked Towns in the Rockies
The Rockies stretch over 3,000 miles, offering adventures, hot springs, Northern Lights, and charming towns for all seeking nature's beauty.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We agree with World Atlas: Cody is an overlooked gem of the Rockies. Come visit us and see the rest of Cody, too, such as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and historic Irma Hotel.
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Eighty-three years after he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Mike Hosokawa returns for this poignant remembrance thanks to the Mellon Foundation.
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“I Didn’t Think I’d See It Again”: Survivors and Descendants Return to Site of Japanese Incarceration Camp
Three families of survivors and descendants gather at the former site of a Japanese incarceration camp in Wyoming to remember their descendants.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Eighty-three years after he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Mike Hosokawa returns for this poignant remembrance thanks to the Mellon Foundation.
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Join Aura Sunada Newlin and Haruka Takaku at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at UW's Scarlett Auditorium for Joy at Heart Mountain, a panel about building connections and reclaiming culture. We're dedicated to bringing people from all parts of life.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Join Aura Sunada Newlin and Haruka Takaku at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at UW's Scarlett Auditorium for Joy at Heart Mountain, a panel about building connections and reclaiming culture. We're dedicated to bringing people from all parts of life.
We need to keep telling our stories and working with others, regardless of their partisan affiliations, in order to fulfill our mission, Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi told the Public History in Authoritarian Times symposium at Yale University Saturday. Her panel was led by David Blight of Yale.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We need to keep telling our stories and working with others, regardless of their partisan affiliations, in order to fulfill our mission, Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi told the Public History in Authoritarian Times symposium at Yale University Saturday. Her panel was led by David Blight of Yale.
Haruka Takaku, our Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, does so well that she's the face of the entire program! We're so lucky to have her.
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Haruka Takaku, our Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, does so well that she's the face of the entire program! We're so lucky to have her.
Congratulations to the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee on a successful pilgrimage! Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and her family attended to honor those who were imprisoned there and to learn more about Japanese Latin American incarceration.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Congratulations to the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee on a successful pilgrimage! Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and her family attended to honor those who were imprisoned there and to learn more about Japanese Latin American incarceration.
We join the Manzanar Committee in mourning the loss of Professor Art Hansen. He was a leader in bringing the story of the Japanese American incarceration to a wider audience, particularly the histories of the draft resisters.
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Remembering Professor Art Hansen (October 10, 1938 – October 30, 2025)
By Glen Kitayama The Manzanar Committee mourns the loss of Art Hansen, Emeritus Professor of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Professor Hansen is…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We join the Manzanar Committee in mourning the loss of Professor Art Hansen. He was a leader in bringing the story of the Japanese American incarceration to a wider audience, particularly the histories of the draft resisters.
manzanarcommittee.org/2025/11/05/r...
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Next year, we'll lead Educators in Exchange: Bridging US-Japan Education on Japanese American Incarceration with Japanese universities and museums thanks to a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation and led by Sybil Kawano and Haruka Takaku.
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Next year, we'll lead Educators in Exchange: Bridging US-Japan Education on Japanese American Incarceration with Japanese universities and museums thanks to a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation and led by Sybil Kawano and Haruka Takaku.
Congratulations to Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi for receiving the Japanese Ambassador’s Commendation for her work in the Washington legal community and for helping build U.S.-Japan relations.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Congratulations to Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi for receiving the Japanese Ambassador’s Commendation for her work in the Washington legal community and for helping build U.S.-Japan relations.
We’re proud of Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, the latest recipient of Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for his work improving Japan-U.S. ties. Four other Heart Mountain incarcerees have received the honor.
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We’re proud of Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, the latest recipient of Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for his work improving Japan-U.S. ties. Four other Heart Mountain incarcerees have received the honor.