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President’s signature makes it official: Colorado’s Amache site now part of National Park Service
Decades after survivors of the Japanese American internment camp began their push, designation ensures its preservation
Colorado’s Camp Amache will become a national historic site after getting congressional approval
The legislation will place the 1 square-mile parcel in southeast Colorado under the management of the National Park Service
Littwin: Camp Amache, the oft-forgotten World War II internment camp, is now officially remembered
Much credit goes to teacher John Hopper, who 30 years ago began a project with Granada students about the camp where 7,500 Japanese Americans were locked away.
Amache is on the verge of earning national park status — and its place in history — after U.S. Senate approves bill
A Senate vote moved the former World War II incarceration camp that held people of Japanese descent closer to becoming a national historic site
Utah’s U.S. Sen. Mike Lee blocks Colorado internment camp designation, draws ire
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, says he has the support of 99 of the chamber’s 100 senators to pass the Amache National Historic Site Act
In the wake of anti-Asian violence, Colorado congressmen push Amache’s designation as National Historic Site
A bill introduced by Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck would bring federal resources to efforts to memorialize a site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated in WWII
Push to get Colorado’s Amache internment camp a national park designation interrupted by coronavirus
COVID-19 delays have slowed a three-year process that supporters hope will put the Granada War Relocation Center site under federal management
The story of a dismal chapter in U.S. history didn’t end with internment camps
The history of Colorado's Amache facility outside Granada, like nine others in the U.S., gave rise to many remarkable stories of Japanese-American success and accomplishment
The internment camp story has been told — but these Colorado authors examined what happened after
Denny Dressman and the late John Elliff had collaborated before on World War II history. This time they told the stories of Japanese Americans who built amazing lives after the camps.
Colorado boarding school, where government sought to assimilate tribal students, listed as a “most endangered” place
Colorado Preservation, Inc. is working with Southern Ute leaders as they consider preserving the site near Ignacio, which recalls a painful chapter of U.S. history
