Nicole Chung talks with Kristi Yamaguchi about the cultural significance of her figure skating victory at the 1992 Olympics.
World War II
Posted inEditor's Pick
In Praise of Cowardice
A humorous personal essay in which Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Story
The Real Refugees of Casablanca
When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the U.S. consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
How the Burning Brigade Broke Free
In the village of Ponar, in present-day Lithuania, occupying Nazis shot nearly 100,000 people, then exhumed and burned the bodies in an effort to remove all traces of the atrocity. The prisoners forced to dig up and burn the bodies of their countrymen knew there was only one way to get out alive: escape.
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The Forgotten History of Japanese-American Designers’ World War II Internment
Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR’s executive order.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In Bed With the Enemy: The Untold Stories of Japanese War Brides
Kathryn Tolbert reports on Japanese war brides — including her mother — who struggled to fit in in post-war America.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Search for the Man Who Saved My Parents’ Lives
A man searches for the French doctor who saved his parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.
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A Search for the Man Who Saved My Parents’ Lives
A man searches for the French doctor who saved his parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.