Historical Evidence of Democracy & Citizenship in the Lives of Youth: Theory Embodied

I.    Seattle's Japanese American, Nisei, Schoolchildren during World War II

  Letters to Homeroom Teacher, Ella Evanson, of Washington School on the Eve of their Incarceration
(from the University of Washington Manuscripts & Archives in Seattle, WA)

Letter to Evanson from a Student's Father Interned in Missoula, MT

Letters to Evanson from her Former Nisei Students from "Camp Harmon" Detention Center in Puyallup, WA

Information on "Camp Harmony" Detention Center in Puyallup, WA.
(the site where Nisei students of Washington School were initially taken)
 

• Excerpts of Oral History Interviews from Nisei who attended Washington School in 1942

Hisako Kato (Interview by Yoon Pak, May 1998, Seattle WA)
Kazuo Ishimitsu (Interview by Yoon Pak, June 1998, Bellevue, WA)
Mitsie Fujii (Interview by Yoon Pak, May 1998, Seattle, WA)
 

Learn more about the history of Asian Americans and Asian American Education [More to Come]

Books
Videos (at the University of California, Irvine -- contains one of the more extensive lists)
Web sites
    Asian American Studies Committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (we're making headway!)
    Center for Educational Telecommunications (great starting place for resources and links on the web!)
    UCLA's Asian American Studies Center (OK, I know we should concentrate on one for the midwest, but they are still important historically)
    Association for Asian American Education
 

II.    Schooling the Children of the Colville Indian Tribe in Spokane, WA in the 1880s

 Bureau of Indian Affairs Memoranda
(from the Washington State University Manuscripts and Archives in Pullman, WA)

Read more about the history of American Indian Boarding School Movement and American Indian Education    [More to Come]

Books
Videos
Web sites
 

• On the formation and ideology of the common school

 
• Education of females

 
• Education of African Americans

 
• Education of Latina/o and Chicanos

 
• Rethinking concepts of race, democracy, and citizenship as dynamic and fluid

Race, Racism, and the Law via findlaw
 

Links to EPS Courses I Teach:

• EPS 300: Asian American Education in Historical and Contemporary Contexts

     EPS 300 Syllabus
 
• EPS 302: History of American Education

     EPS 302 Syllabus
 
• EPS 399: Biography as History: Asian American Educational Experiences

     EPS 399 Course Description

Course Handouts
    Immigration Restrictions and Policies Affecting Asian Americans
    General Chronology of Asian American History in the United States
    On the idea of the "Oriental"
 

• EPS 402: Educational Movements in the Twentieth Century: Progressivism and Interculturalism

    EPS 402 Course Description

Defining Progressivism and Interculturalism:
    Responses on the First Day of Class
 

• Illinois State Archives, Springfield

 
• Rockefeller Archives Center, New York

 
• Seattle Public Schools' Archives and Manuscripts Division

 
• Libary of Congress

Tips on "Doing History" -- Making sense of Primary Sources
 

Why I Keep on Keepin' On
 

My Favorite Places to Escape (not that I have anything against Urbana-Champaign)
    Let's begin with some of the National Parks in the US:
      The Redwoods
      Yosemite
      Joshua Tree
      Cabrillo
      The Grand Canyon
      Olympia National Park
      The San Juan Islands
      Mount Rainier
      Crater Lake
      Yellowstone
      The Badlands
 

    What's the history behind the formation of the National Parks in the US?