“Witness to History: The Japanese American Incarceration Experience” feat. guest speaker Sam Mihara

Presented By: UAF Department of History
Dates: November 19, 2026
Location: Schaible Auditorium in the Usibelli Engineering Building
Address: 1764 Tanana Loop, Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: (907) 474-6213
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Price: Free
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When Sam Mihara was 9, the U.S. government forced his family from San Francisco to a desolate Wyoming prison camp. Today, the award-winning civil rights speaker and 2024 NEH Jefferson Lecturer tours the nation sharing his story. Mihara will join us online to present his firsthand experience—featuring historic photographs by Dorothea Lange—and answer audience questions.
This event is sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the UAF Department of History, and the UAF Asian Studies Program.

Photo credit: Dorothea Lange, One Nation Indivisible, San Francisco, 1942)