Huge thanks to Ben Railton @ben.railton for his shoutout of Together in Manzanar in his fantastic finale to Season 2 of his podcast DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. And to be shouted-out alongside @tamikonimura.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social--this makes it triply-special.

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Featuring further reading recommendations for & tributes to books from @tracyslater.bsky.social, @tamikonimura.bsky.social, @frankabe.bsky.social, & more! americanstudier.podbean.com/e/postgame-p...

Just-released video: "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape" archives.jdc.org/tracy-slater...

Just-released video: "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape" archives.jdc.org/tracy-slater...

Early event warning! New book project! "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape." 📚💙 🗃️ Signup & more info @ archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-pas...

If you're in the St Louis area, please join us to remember and honor this painful part of our nation's history. Register for this book talk at the St Louis Holocaust Museum tickets.stlholocaustmuseum.org/events/d9b5a...? 📚💙 🗃️

Early event warning! New book project! "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape." 📚💙 🗃️ Signup & more info @ archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-pas...

Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social - You will be missed. But also followed now by me on Substack! Thank you for all you have done for the #writingcommunity 📚💙https://roncharles.substack.com/?r=77a5d&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

Ron Charles | Substack

I write about books for The Washington Post. I talk about books for CBS Sunday Morning. Click to read Ron Charles, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

roncharles.substack.com

Historians of the US WWII Japanese American incarceration and of American concentration camps, there's a new podcast coming that promises to be really insightful.

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This Opening Day, keep an eye out for the First Inning of Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America, Season Two! 🗃️ americanstudier.podbean.com/e/trailer-17...

This Opening Day, keep an eye out for the First Inning of Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America, Season Two! 🗃️ americanstudier.podbean.com/e/trailer-17...

@draftingthepast.bsky.social, @bradlisti.bsky.social, @jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social, @kathmschmidt.bsky.social -- wondering if you've got any good examples from your previous guests or clients?

Tracy Slater@tracyslater.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Extra points for examples of books that do this particularly well! #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️

Extra points for examples of books that do this particularly well! #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️

Photo credit: Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site 🗃️

Fuji from the plane. The only thing that made row 53, middle seat, worth it.

Major thanks to @katecarp.bsky.social of @draftingthepast.bsky.social for putting together this episode. And MAJOR thanks to listener Kate Davis for naming Together in Manzanar as the best history book she read in 2025!! 💜 💜 💜 💜 💜 What a way to make my year. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Episode 81: The Best History Books You Read This Year

Listeners call in to Drafting the Past to tell host Kate Carpenter about the best history books they read in 2025.

draftingthepast.com

In the meantime, if you didn't have a chance to check out my podcast's first season, I think it's some of the best writing & work I've ever done, & hope you'll take a listen! bsky.app/profile/amer...

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 2y ago

For new followers, here's my latest project, a podcast on sports histories, exclusion & inclusion, & the worst & best of America--& my single favorite moment from American history. americanstudier.podbean.com

Grateful to whomever is buying my existing book, especially while I try to motivate to get working on the next one! Seeing this helps. #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️

Another crucial piece of writing from @andreapitzer.bsky.social, this time smartly pointing out parallels between dangers posed by current political discourse & propaganda impacting trans communities, immigrants, and Jewish communities in the US and beyond. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-re-soa...?

You're soaking in it

Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

With @tracyslater.bsky.social, who broke up with her agent: welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...

So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What?

Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."

welcometopitchclub.substack.com

A very warm welcome to join us virtually, Dec 9, 7:30-8:30pm ET; Dec 10, 9:30-10:30 Tokyo time, @ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...! #booksky 🗃️

A virtual talk that works for both North American & Japan-based friends! 7:30pm ET Tues., Dec 9; 9:30am Tokyo time, Wed., Dec 10: A mother's fight to reconcile conflicting ethical, personal, & political forces from inside an American concentration camp. 📚💙 🗃️ www.falmouthjewish.org/together-in-...

Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm

A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom Falmouth Jewish...

falmouthjewish.org

Some Together in Manzanar/Burn Order trivia: The "Ringle Report" that Maddow focuses on in episode 1 was written from the same building, on letterhead listing the same address--707 South Spring Street in LA--where Elaine and Tommy were ordered to go to register for Tommy's incarceration in Manzanar.

Great to see this history getting such exposure, from @maddow.bsky.social, "the other Jewish American woman/writer" focusing on the forced removal & incarceration of the West Coast Japanese American community during WWII... #booksky 🗃️

Great to see this history getting such exposure, from @maddow.bsky.social, "the other Jewish American woman/writer" focusing on the forced removal & incarceration of the West Coast Japanese American community during WWII... #booksky 🗃️

A virtual talk that works for both North American & Japan-based friends! 7:30pm ET Tues., Dec 9; 9:30am Tokyo time, Wed., Dec 10: A mother's fight to reconcile conflicting ethical, personal, & political forces from inside an American concentration camp. 📚💙 🗃️ www.falmouthjewish.org/together-in-...

Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm

A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom Falmouth Jewish...

falmouthjewish.org

or not traumatic. Japanese Canadians were interned for the same reason as Japanese Americans: racism. Further, Japanese Americans were permitted to return to the Pacific Coast in 1945. Japanese Canadians were permitted to do so in 1949! A must read! Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!

in one location. That said, there were similar tensions within Angler (all male dynamic) of lateral violence, and there was one stabbing in Tashme. But just because there were fever acts of overt violence either between Japanese Canadians and/or Canadian authorities does not make what happened

military. Most were interned in the BC Interior located in valleys with dirt roads guarded by the RCMP. In such isolated places and the color of their skin, Japanese Canadians could not escape. Further, there were no deaths directly linked to internment in Canada, with gun shots only taking place

This is where I make my compare and contrast between my knowledge of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, and this book. With the exception of Angler in northwestern Ontario, the majority of Japanese Canadians that were interned were NOT behind barbed wire fences and guarded by the

Fun to appear on the Brainvwaves Video Anthology to talk about teachers who make a difference (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUO...) & the book TOGETHER IN MANZANAR (www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_00...). Shoutout to teachers everywhere (the true superheroes, along with librarians and archivists!). #booksky 🗃️

Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity