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Amache National Historic Site in Colorado has formally been established in the National Park System following the Town of Granada’s acquisition and donation of the land needed to establish the nation’s newest national park.

A former internment camp in southeast Colorado where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II is now home to the state’s newest national park.

The site in southeastern Colorado was one of 10 incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to detain Japanese Americans.

On Thursday, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally established the former Amache Internment Camp in southeastern Colorado as a national park​.

Even a passing glance at documentary materials from the 1930s — the bread lines, the work camps, the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West — ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the gravest of those images, bridging the gap between individual experience and national story.

A Japanese American returns to the WWII internment camp where she was once held -- now a national landmark.

A new exhibition explores the work of legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, who captured some of the most striking images ever shot of American poverty, hardship and resilience.

Richmond Public Library staff explores the fast-paced mystery of Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division.

All photos by Dorothea Lange; all gifts of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, National Gallery of Art, Washington Dorothea Lange’s pictures show people ...

Closed since the summer of 2021 for a $67.5-million renovation project, the first since its 1987 opening, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will reopen