The images in this gallery capture significant military and political shifts that occurred in both China and Japan in the decades preceding the outbreak of war in July 1937.
View images from the Theresienstadt ghetto at the End of World War II.
The story of Calvin Chew Wong is representative of the idea of generational history passed down that is explored in the reading To Carry History. It took four first generation immigrants of the Wong Family to come to settle in America before a second generation Wong was born on American soil. From Calvin’s family line, he, Calvin Chew Wong was the first generation to emigrate to America, his son Michael Wong was the first second generation to be born, and his grandson Justin Matsuura was the first third generation to be born to the Wong Family. Now there are three generations of Calvin Wong’s line who are living in America.
View different styles of headscarves worn by women around the world.
View photographs of urban European Jewish family life during the 1930s.
Will Okun, a teacher from Chicago, joined journalist Nicholas Kristof on a reporting trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take photographs as part of his project to photograph African and African American people in everyday moments.