Individuals featured in primary materials.
Drawing on survivor testimonies and recent news, this article traces the decades-long struggle of Japan’s atomic bomb survivors—the hibakusha—for official recognition, medical care, and dignity, from the 1945 bombings to the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
From the 1963 coup that toppled Ngô Đình Diệm to the final surrender of Saigon in April 1975, this article reconstructs how Dương Văn Minh — ‘Big Minh’ — became the last president of South Vietnam and ended a war.
From the migration of the Al-Utub tribes to the oil-fueled transformation and the modern constitutional pact, this article traces how the Al-Sabah family ruled Kuwait through dramatic change, using official records and contemporary scholarship as primary grounding.
Drawing on letters, dispatches, and archival records, this article reconstructs how female journalists—the ‘D-Day Dames’—fought for the right to cover World War II, what they witnessed, and the barriers they overcame to report from the front lines and the home front.
Drawing on 1978 newspaper coverage, eyewitness memoirs, and biographical accounts from the era, this article reconstructs how Ayatollah Khomeini rose from a quiet religious scholar to the leader of Iran’s revolution, as seen through the eyes of those who lived through it.
In 1948, a young American pilot named Gail Halvorsen began dropping candy parachutes to the children of blockaded West Berlin. His unauthorized gesture grew into Operation Little Vittles, which dropped 23 tons of sweets and won hearts on both sides of the Cold War.
Drawing on contemporary obituaries and news reports from the BBC and Al Jazeera, this article reconstructs the life and reign of Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, from his early political career to his leadership through the Gulf War and his death in 2006.