Drawing on primary sources from the Library of Congress and the National Park Service, this article reconstructs how British and American women experienced, reported, and understood the seventy-five-year struggle for the vote, from Seneca Falls to the militant tactics of the WSPU.
In 1979, Tehran became the epicenter of one of the twentieth century’s most dramatic upheavals—the Iranian Revolution. From Khomeini’s triumphant return in February to the collapse of the monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic republic, this article explores the city’s daily life, politics, and transformation through primary sources and contemporary reports.
Drawing on diaries, letters, and official reports, this article reconstructs how ordinary Germans experienced the Allied bombing war from 1942 to 1945—the fear, the material deprivation, and the slow erosion of social trust beneath the Nazi propaganda of ‘community of fate.’
Drawing on the recently published memoir of Kiyoshi Tanimoto, the photographs of Yoshito Matsushige, and the testimony of Chieko Kiriake, this article reconstructs the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as experienced by those who lived through it—revealing what they knew, feared, and understood in the immediate aftermath.
Based on UPI dispatches and front-page reports from July 27, 1953, this article reconstructs the tense, uncertain hours of the Korean War ceasefire as journalists on the ground described them—from the last artillery shells to the eerie silence that followed.
A primary-source-driven account of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, using contemporary newspaper reports, trial testimony, and survivor accounts to show how the tragedy reshaped American labor law and factory safety.
In 1955, the brutal murders of three Michigan children sparked a wave of fear and sensational press coverage. Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports, this article reconstructs how the public experienced the panic and why the cases remain unsolved.
Drawing on the official Schedule No. I—Population and the 1902 Census Reports, this article reconstructs how the Twelfth Census of the United States was conducted on June 1, 1900, what enumerators recorded, and what those records reveal about American households at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Drawing on the testimony, documents, and courtroom proceedings of the International Military Tribunal, this article reconstructs how the world first confronted the full scope of Nazi crimes, from the opening session in November 1945 to the verdicts of October 1946.
During the Vietnam War, GIs published over 300 underground newspapers that spread antiwar and radical ideas across military bases worldwide. Drawing on the newspapers themselves, this article reveals how soldiers used print to challenge the war, build community, and face censorship and punishment.