There's a great article in today's U.S. News & World Report about the U.S. Park Service's efforts to preserve the country's WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps. It's amazing how many Americans have no knowledge of this very dark time, when nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, the vast majority of them American citizens born in the United States, were forced to leave their homes and relocate to 10 remote internment camps throughout the Western states in the interest of "national security." Hopefully Congress will find room in the budget to bring these internment camps and the stories of the internees themselves out of the shadows.
Related: WWII Internment Records