Detention Nation: How America Turned Detention Into Policy

Part I: What We’re Watching—and Why It Matters

I was an honors student. I thought I knew American history.

I knew about the Trail of Tears. I knew about the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and Watergate. I even learned a bit about IranContra. I knew enough to be skeptical. I knew history gets shaped by the victors.

But it wasn’t until college that I learned about the Japanese American internment…