In my new live show and check out History Daily Live.com for upcoming dates, I discuss an early period of American history after the revolution but before the writing of the Constitution.

And this was a fraught time. The nation was

just a newborn, and there were real crises, both foreign and domestic, that threatened the country.

Had the wind blown a different way, maybe the United States would have been a failed experiment.

Because at the time, the American government we had failed in two aspects.

It did not provide the robust, centralized power and authority it needed to respond adequately to threats, and it did not provide the robust, enshrined individual liberties it needed to prevent

that centralized power from sliding into tyranny. That has always been a tension in America.

We want to secure our

citizens' life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, but need a powerful governmental structure

to do it, a government authorized to deprive life, liberty, and happiness. The line between

protecting the public and subjecting the public can be blurry, and we've made mistakes.

One of the most unfortunate was the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.

And on today's Saturday matinee, we're bringing you an episode from the new podcast,

History for the Reckoning, with actor and activist George Tukai, telling his own family story of this dreadful period.

I hope you enjoy.

While you're listening, be sure to search for and follow History for the Reckoning.

We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

This is History for the Reckoning, a podcast that dives deep into the history that's hard to hear, but critical to understand.

Season one, American Concentration Camps, the story of World War II Japanese incarceration.

Welcome to the prologue. I'm your host, Spencer Ford. Over this season of History for the Reckoning, we're going to do a deep dive with lots of facts and historical details about the incarceration of America's West Coast Japanese during World War II.

But it's more than just dates and facts. These things happen to real people with feelings and lives and families and stories. And no one is better equipped to share one family story than someone who was there.

Telling his and his family story, I'm honored to be joined today by George Ticay.

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