UWM Observes Constitution Day
Japanese Americans and the Constitution, 1942-2007
In accordance with congressional mandate, UWM will observe "Constitution Day" with a program on Thursday, September 20, 2007 from 4:30-6:00 pm in Curtin 175.
Professor Roger Daniels will speak on "Japanese Americans and the Constitution, 1942-2007." A past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as well as the Immigration History Society, Roger Daniels is the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. He served as consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and is a planning committee member for the immigration museum on Ellis Island. His recent works include Not Like Us: Immigration and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (1997); an expanded edition of Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (2002); Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants (2004); and an expanded edition of Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (2004).
Refreshments will be served starting at 4:15 PM.
This program is sponsored by the Department of History and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For more information, contact Margo Anderson (margo@uwm.edu) in the History Department, 414-229-3969 or 414-229-4361.
This year's Presidential Proclamation on Constitution Day is available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070822-5.html
On the Constitution:
National Archives Experience the Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html
National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/
Interactive Constitution at the National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/