Want to avoid war? Listen to my grandma’s story Recently I was visiting my grandmother, Kazuko Nita, in Japan. Achan, as I call her, knows that I’m not good at cooking and that my knife skills are... Natalie Akane Newcomb Play AudioListen 7 mins
Pearl Harbor changed her life. Now she wants us to learn from it Fujiko Tamura Gardner was 9 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She remembers hearing about it on the radio at her parents’ farm in Fife,... Kim Malcolm Kate OConnell
Reflections on Japanese internment, 75 years later Bill Radke talks with writer and Humanities Washington speaker Mayumi Tsutakawa about the 75th anniversary of the World War II order that led to... Bill Radke Shane Mehling Play AudioListen 11 mins
Remembering those who resisted Japanese internment Bill Radke speaks with author Frank Abe about his 2000 documentary "Conscience and the Constitution," which looks at Japanese who resisted their... Bill Radke Shane Mehling Play AudioListen 11 mins
94-Year-Old Ex-Nazi Guard Goes On Trial Over Mass Killings At Concentration Camps In court in Germany, Johann Rehbogen is charged with being an accessory in the murders of several hundred Jewish and Polish prisoners at the Stutthof concentration camp in the early 1940s. Ruben Kimmelman
Rare, haunting photos from the Japanese internment It’s not often that we look back on ugly times in our nation’s history. We’re not very good at that as Americans. But the Japanese internment has been... Isolde Raftery
D-Day Vets In Their 90s Parachute Into Normandy 75 Years Later, This Time To Cheers Three nonagenarians were among 200 parachutists marking the anniversary of the allied invasion of Europe, June 6, 1944. They leaped into the same fields once occupied by Nazi forces. Vanessa Romo
'Ready! Go!': I Jumped Out Of A Vintage WWII Plane For D-Day Photographer Luke Sharrett marked the invasion's 75th anniversary by parachuting out of a plane in Normandy. This was his way of honoring World War II veterans. Luke Sharrett
Vatican Opens Archives Of World War II-Era Pope Pius XII After decades of pressure from historians and Jewish groups, the Vatican on Monday began allowing scholars to access the archives of Pope Pius XII, who remained publicly silent during the Holocaust. Sylvia Poggioli Play AudioListen 4 mins
The Time Machine: How Nostalgia Prepares Us For The Future In recent months, many of us have looked back with longing at our lives before COVID-19. For many of us, that world was one of bustle and activity — marked by scenes of packed restaurants, crowded subway cars, and chaotic playgrounds. In this audio essay, Shankar discusses our wistfulness for the world before the pandemic, and why such nostalgia can actually help to orient us toward the future. Tara Boyle Shankar Vedantam Play AudioListen 6 mins
