On Saturday, Arkansas State Archives staffers Mary Dunn and
Harry Lah, were joined by Shannon Lausch of the UA Little Rock Center for
Arkansas History and Culture and Anne Marie Martin of UA Fayetteville Libraries
Special Collections in presenting on the “Rohwer Reconstructed” collaborative
grant project at the Archives*Records annual conference in Washington D.C. The Rohwer Reconstructed grant project,
funded by the National Parks Service Japanese-American Confinement Sites grant
program, brings together digitized historic materials related to
Japanese-American internment in the Arkansas delta during WWII, from historical
repositories across the state.
These materials are available in a digital archive on the
project website, http://risingabove.cast.uark.edu, which also features an
interactive timeline of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII,
visualizations using 2D maps and satellite imagery, and an interactive 3D
reconstruction of one of the barracks blocks of Rohwer Relocation Camp as it
would have looked during WWII.
The presentation was well-attended and garnered great
interest from the audience. The Archives*Records annual conference is the joint
annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, the Council of State
Archivists, and the National Association of Government Archives and Records
Administrators.
