I am a recent graduate of the public history graduate program at Rutgers University. I currently serve as the digital media coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, where I wrangle bloggers and tackle our social media platforms.
In the last two years I've created an oral history database using StoriesMatter for the Salem County Historical Society, collected data on school group attendance for the education department at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I've digitized the Balch Institute Ethnic Images in Advertising Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I volunteer at the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and the Digital Center at HSP.
In my spare time I am often silly and irreverent.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
George Takei, Ancestry.com commemorate Japanese-American internment - The Washington Post
Tomorrow marks the 70th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, EO 9066 lead to the internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II.
When you’re done with the Washington Post article, head over to The National Archives and check out the Japanese American Gallery.
(I should add that other groups fell under the jurisdiction of this document. Americans of German and Italian ancestry were targeted as well. I do not know any details of how their treatment echoed with that of Japanese Americans)
