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Hiroshima

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors.
by John Hersey via The New Yorker on August 31, 1946

A Visit to the Secret Town in Tennessee That Gave Birth to the Atomic Bomb

A journalist seeks to capture the "spirit" of Oak Ridge.
by Louis Falstein via The New Republic on November 12, 1945
A man standing in the rubble that was his home before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The front of the postcard contains a printed caption stating, "All That Was Left of His Home After the Tulsa Race Riot, 6-1-1921."

Tulsa, 1921

On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
by Walter Francis White, Russell Cobb via The Nation on June 15, 1921
A crowd dressed in white marches in the Silent Parade of 1917 in Washington, D.C.

Fighting in Defense of Their Lives

The NAACP investigates a race riot.
by James Weldon Johnson via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 1919

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

This film is a rare record of San Francisco's downtown area before its destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
by Miles Brothers via Library of Congress on April 14, 1906
A subterranean shot of the Lexington Avenue station, which made a loop around City Hall, in the early 1900s.

October 27, 1904: The New York City Subway System Opens

“The bearing of this upon social conditions can hardly be overestimated.”
by Richard Kreitner via The Nation on November 3, 1904
Lithograph of the great Chicago fire.

October 8, 1871: The Great Chicago Fire Kills Hundreds and Burns Most of Downtown

“Very sensible men have declared that they were fully impressed at such a time with the conviction that it was the burning of the world.”
by Frederick Law Olmsted, Richard Kreitner via The Nation on November 9, 1871
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