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Any attempt to comprehend the problem of contemporary Punjab should begin by first accepting the reality that a new minority consciousness has emerged. In which case neither the ethnicised history of a community, such as the Sikhs, nor the mere…

Koki Hirota listens to death sentence read by Sir William Webb (Australia) (not shown), President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Hirota, age 70, was Prime Minister from March 1936, to February 1937 and Foreign Minister under…

Poster of a hand wearing a Nazi ring piecing together a jigsaw puzzle

A 13-year-old orphan, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photograph taking following liberation of the camp. Austria

A letter from Oakland architect John J. Donovan Jr. who is writing to Father Donohoe looking to establish a scholarship in the name of the Oakland Diocese's Bishop Floyd L. Begin. He specifically states that he wants the scholarship specifically to…

A letter from John J. Donovan Jr. to Father Patrick A. Donohue acknowledging a thank you letter sent by Donohue to Donovan about the scholarship that he pledge to create to allow low-income African American students from the Diocese of Oakland to…

Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, USA by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her spell at the Resettlement Administration

Lange's Migrant Mother snapshots the grim gaze of Florence Owens Thompson, one of the many destitute farmers in California. In 1936, when this picture was captured, Thompson was a mother of seven children, and lived in Nipomo, California.