Bibliography Books Warren I. Cohen, The Asian American Century (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002). Chang-su Houchins, Artifacts of diplomacy: Smithsonian collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition, 1853-1854 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995). Peter Duus, The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997) Oliver Statler, The Black Ship Scroll: an account of the Perry expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the lively beginnings of people-to-people relations between Japan & American based on contemporary records. With translations by Richard Lane and scroll paintings in full color by an anonymous Japanese eyewitness (Tokyo : Weatherhill, 1963). James C. Thomson, Jr., et. al., Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (New York: Harper & Row, 1981). Robert Tomes, The Americans in Japan: An Abridgment of the Government Narrative of the U.S. Expedition to Japan, under Commodore Perry (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857). Peter Booth Wiley, Yankees in the land of the gods: Commodore Perry and the opening Japan (New York: Viking, 1990). Journal Article Steve Lubar, "In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan," Public Historian 17 (1995): 25-59 Web Sources Black Ships & Samurai Part of MIT's Open Course Ware, this on-line exhibit features a huge range of visual materials about Perry's voyage to Japan, as seen by both Americans and Japanese. Professor John Dower, who wrote the marvelous text and chose the images, remains one of the premier historians of US-Japan relations and this site reflects his many years of research and teaching on the subject. Black Ship Scrolls: Japan Society of Northern California Funded by the United-States Japan Foundation, this site focuses on the most famous scroll that depicts some of the same events shown in Brown University's scroll. The site is aimed at teachers and elementary and middle-school students and features essays by Fred G. Notehelfer, Professor of History at UCLA. It includes great lesson plans and kid friendly tours of the scroll images. Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir, by John W. Bennett Photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan, 1948-1951, (a few were made in the 1960's during his term at Waseda University), with comments on the photos by Bennett. Also included are extensive selections from Bennett's professional journal of the period, and other documents. Consisting of a personal and professional memoir, this site is also a record of a unique experiment in social analysis and research that focuses on a period of particular significance in the development of Japanese and international history, politics, economics, and culture.