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| | IHC - 2002 Annual Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Sims was selected to receive the award for his work as a scholar and teacher who has made outstanding contributions to the field of American history and the public humanities. |
| | He began teaching at BSU in 1970, and has had a longtime research interest in the history of Japanese American internment during World War II, particularly the Minidoka Relocation Camp at Hunt, Idaho, near Twin Falls, which during the war interned nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of the war, beginning in 1942. |
| | The students were involved in such chores as: setting up camp, churning butter, roping a calf, and other hands-on activities. |
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