Tuesday, April 17th @ 6:30pm
Lone Star College-CyFair Conference Center
Russell’s book The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II is critically acclaimed and is currently being used this semester in most of our HIST (U.S. Survey II) courses.
Russell’s research on this Texas internment camp is insightful and the story is engaging and a page turner,” said professor of history Robert O’Brien. “We experience the camp primarily through the eyes of two teenage girls, one of Japanese heritage and the other German. Far fewer German Americans were put in camps during World War II so Russell’s book provides valuable information on a facet of internment that has been rarely examined.”
