Stephanie Hinnershitz, Author

Stephanie Hinnershitz

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Steph Hinnershitz is a historian with the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National WWII Museum and earned her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013. Her speciality is the American home front and civil-military relations during WWII and her most recent book, Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, was published in 2021 with Penn Press.

Japanese Americans were Incarcerated Workers (and Strikers) in World War II

“Protest” or “hunger strike?” Officials at the Robert N. Davoren complex (R.N.D.C.), a jail part of the Rikers Island correctional facility, have offered

by Stephanie Hinnershitz
February 11, 2022