Joanne Oppenheim

September 1942, Men building benches and chairs for classrooms in Heart Mountain. National Archives In my research for Unforgotten Voices...

Early on in researching my book, Dear Miss Breed, I went to Washington, D.C. to read the testimony from the 1981 hearings of the...

Although many of those who lent their Voices to our book are no longer with us, we thought a list might help family and friends who might...

As an author of dozens of books published by Scholastic, Bantam, Random House, Little Brown, Harper Row and other publishers that no...

A friend recently mentioned it was too bad Unforgotten Voices didn’t include any interviews with men who served as guards in the camps,...

Good friends in San Diego who supported my research for Dear Miss Breed are now helping to find family and friends of those featured in...

Out takes for movies are often hilarious snippets, with actors flubbing their lines. Books suffer from a similar fate. Usually, in final...

Delighted to share a recent review of Unforgotten Voices from Heart Mountain: "This vivid recounting of the World War II incarceration...

Looking forward to Monday, Oct. 19th 6:30 PM Pacific Time to celebrate the legacy of the Rebellious Miss Breed, the San Diego librarian...

I've been doing research for a new book and reading old, old newspapers. I'm talking about newspapers from the Gilded Age, late 19th...