Alessandro Meregaglia
Alessandro Meregaglia is an archivist and assistant professor at Boise State University's Special Collections and Archives, where he has worked since 2016. He earned a Master of Library Science from Indiana University specializing in archives and records management as well as a Master of Arts in History focusing on twentieth-century American history.
Updated March 2022
Stories from This Author
Toshio Mori Endured Internment Camps and Overcame Discrimination to Become the First Japanese American to Publish a Book of Fiction
March 21, 2022 • Alessandro Meregaglia
Eighty years ago, on Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led to more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States being moved into internment camps. At the time, Toshio Mori, a U.S. citizen with Japanese parents, was an aspiring writer who had a contract to publish a collection of his short stories in 1942. As a result of the executive order, however, he was sent to one of the …
