During World War II, the U.S. government operated a network of alien detention facilities — a numbing euphemism for prisons — and filled them with about 120,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of whom ...

Asia Society Texas Center partners with the Harris County Public Library's Gulf Coast Reads program to offer a conversation with Jan Jarboe Russell about her book The Train to Crystal City. The book ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A World War II program traded German and Italian Americans for Americans who were trapped abroad. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with author Jan Jarboe Russell. The internment camps where ...

From 1942 to 1945, secret government trains delivered United States civilians regularly to Crystal City, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, and ...

Few in the 1940s knew about the existence of the Crystal City Enemy Detention Facility, and those who did generally didn't call it by its official name. They called it an internment camp, or a kidnap ...

Texas Monthly writer Jan Jarboe Russell brings us the dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families — ...

The Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell is a fascinating, engaging, sobering look at a military project few know about that took place in Crystal City, Texas and, to this day, the U.S.

Rendition, it turns out, is not a new idea. During World War II, long before detainees found themselves wearing orange jumpsuits at Guantánamo, the United States pressured Latin-American governments ...