Recent writings on visual culture and art education emphasize contemporary artists, artworks, and objects from everyday life as an avenue for exploring the images school-aged students confront. The use of contemporary images is a vital and significant curricular need. However, the relevance of historical artworks can offer avenues for analyzing equally provoking issues. By approaching historical artworks that relate to contemporary topics, students may learn more about themselves, their world, and history. It is for this reason that the author began to research and develop a curriculum on the documentary photographers of the Japanese American Internment Camps. This article describes this curriculum, the Japanese American Internment Camp at Manzanar, and student responses to the photographs without prior identification of the photographers. (Contains 4 figures 4 endnotes.)