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Barbed wire, and participants on the 2014 community pilgrimage to Tule Lake.

Why the Language We Use to Describe Japanese American Incarceration During World War II Matters

A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma

by Tamiko Nimura via Smithsonian on December 28, 2023

Kris Kringle with children from the film 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town.'

A Classic Christmas Movie Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism

Nazis play a key role as villain in American collective consciousness—but without broad understanding of antisemitism.

by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Made By History on December 21, 2023

ACT UP protesters demanding the release of experimental medication for those living with HIV/AIDS.

Patient Rights Groups Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From ACT UP

These groups are invoking ACT UP's legacy to push for further deregulation of the FDA. Here's why they're wrong.

by Gregg Gonsalves via The Nation on November 9, 2023

Smoke pours from La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, during the military coup.

50 Years After “the Other 9/11”: Remembering the Chilean Coup

Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.

by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on September 11, 2023

Bessel van der Kolk.

How Trauma Became America’s Favorite Diagnosis

Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

by Danielle Carr via Intelligencer on July 31, 2023

Tina Turner singing on stage

America Loved Tina Turner. But It Wasn’t Good To Her.

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

by Soraya Nadia McDonald via Andscape on June 6, 2023

Photograph, “The Burning City of San Francisco."

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

The heart of this book is the sharp and disjointed accounts of survivors, their experience not yet shorn of its surprise.

by Sasha Archibald via The Public Domain Review on May 23, 2023

Collage of Holmesburg Prison aerial view with a gloved hand picking up a medical vial in the foreground.

Holmesburg Prison's Medical Experiments Are Philadelphia's 'Lasting Shame'

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.

by Tamar Sarai via Prism on May 15, 2023

Tillie Black Bear and Bill Clinton.

Tillie Black Bear Was the Grandmother of the Anti-Domestic Violence Movement

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

by Mona Gable via Smithsonian on April 25, 2023

Composite by Hannah Yoest of images relating to the Iraq War.

Moral Injuries

Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later.

by Will Selber via Bulwark+ on March 20, 2023

Collage of photos: author's grandfather, Shigeki, in his army uniform; his house; an internment camp.

My Family Lost Our Farm During Japanese Incarceration. I Went Searching for What Remains.

When Executive Order 9066 forcibly removed my family from their community 80 years ago, we lost more than I realized.

by Ruth Chizuko Murai via Mother Jones on February 18, 2022

Rubble from atomic bombs in Japan

Thousands of Japanese Americans Were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

Among the nearly half a million atomic bomb victims and survivors were thousands of Japanese American citizens of the United States.

by Nina Wallace via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on August 4, 2021

Mochitsura Hashimoto, center, former Japanese sub commander, testifies at the Dec. 13, 1945, session of the Navy court-martial in Washington, trying Capt. Charles B. McVay III.

How a WWII Japanese Sub Commander Helped Exonerate a U.S. Navy Captain

After the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, a Japanese sub commander, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt. Charles McVay.

by Daryl Austin via Retropolis on June 6, 2021

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum and His Critics are Both Wrong About Native American History

The Founders terrorized and exterminated Native Americans instead of learning from them.

by Michael Leroy Oberg via Made By History on April 29, 2021

2020 time capsule with a roll of toilet paper, mask, hourglass, and syringe

The Things They Buried: Masks, Vials, Social-Distancing Signage — And, of Course, Toilet Paper

Most Americans are eager to forget 2020. But some are making time capsules to make sure future generations remember it.

by Maura Judkis via Washington Post on March 25, 2021

Man walks through the U.S. Capitol holding a confederate flag on Jan 6, 2021.

1871 Provides A Road Map for Addressing the Pro-Trump Attempted Insurrection

Commitment to racial justice, not conciliation, is needed to save democracy.

by Megan Kate Nelson via Made By History on January 8, 2021

Counting the Dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

by Alex Wellerstein via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 4, 2020

After Reparations

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

by Robert Samuels via Washington Post on April 3, 2020

The Seminal Novel About the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was Written by a Texan

Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ tells the tale of a pandemic she barely survived.

by Michael Agresta via Texas Monthly on March 25, 2020

Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Past & Present on February 4, 2020

The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.

by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

The Great Fear of 1776

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.

by Jeffrey Ostler via Age of Revolutions on September 23, 2019

Video Games Can Bring Older Family Members' Personal History Back to Life

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.

by Bob De Schutter via The Conversation on September 18, 2019

‘They Was Killing Black People’: A Century-Old Race Massacre Still Haunts Tulsa

Even as Black Wall Street gentrifies, unresolved questions remain about one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Washington Post on September 28, 2018

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

The story of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district isn’t well known, but it has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance.

by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on June 28, 2018

Picasso's painting "Massacre in Korea."

Don’t You Hear Her?

The enduring Korean War.

by Jessie Kindig via n+1 on August 18, 2017

A memorial to those killed located in El Mozote, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero Trust.

Remember El Mozote

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.

by Branko Marcetic, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on December 12, 2016

Long-Lost Manuscript Has a Searing Eyewitness Account of Tulsa Race Massacre

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.

by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 27, 2016

Sinking of the Lusitania

Life Aboard the Lusitania

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother

by Emily Walker via Slate on May 7, 2015

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