{ "pages": [ { "id": 1, "title": "1851 The Birth Of The Times", "date": "September 18 1851", "decade": "1850s", "src": "/storage/frontpages/8xm2izE1TZhYZauykIfIOQaQIbKy6h2dM36Bpokj.png", "summary": "A prospectus in 1851 announced the arrival of a daily newspaper you might be familiar with.", "hotspots": [ { "id": "1178039574787", "title": "The Birth of The Times", "summary": "The Birth of The Times", "top": 43.66, "left": 68.1, "order": 0, "items": [ { "type": "text", "content": "A prospectus in 1851 announced the arrival of a daily newspaper you might be familiar with.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "image", "content": "", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/pHY32sy0tZaUKMtvUbVrGHGVCT3iASmwiKnu4SSr.webp" } ] }, { "id": "1178039583884", "title": "A New York Times Origin Story", "summary": "A New York Times Origin Story", "top": 68.38, "left": 21.23, "order": 1, "items": [ { "type": "text", "content": "A graphic designer recently discovered documents belonging to a distant relative, George Jones, the newspaper’s founding publisher.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "image", "content": "A cache of documents that belonged to The Times’s founding publisher.", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/Clw7LeINP1C0NA0krd5nmltbXaNwE2GoeQxcOU6R.webp" }, { "type": "author", "content": "", "author_name": "By David Dunlap", "author_date": "Dec. 21, 2025" }, { "type": "text", "content": "George Jones (1811-1891) was more than the founding publisher of The New York Times in 1851. In the 1870s and ’80s, he helped bring down the Tweed Ring, turned The Times from Republican to Democratic and built a headquarters for the newspaper in Lower Manhattan that still stands as a New York City landmark.\n\nThe vacuum left by Jones’s death proved impossible to fill. His heirs tried for two years and then sold The Times in 1893 to a group led by the newspaper’s editor in chief. The new owners struggled for three more years before selling to Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935), whose family has since controlled The Times.\n\nOn Dec. 8 of this year, Elizabeth Ellis, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Jones, opened a new window on this tumultuous era. Accompanied by her daughter, Stella Adams, Ms. Ellis came to the Times building in Midtown Manhattan to share a cache of family documents with Times employees, including Sam Dolnick, a deputy managing editor and a great-great-grandson of Ochs.", "is_subhead": false } ] } ] }, { "id": 2, "title": "Berlin Wall Falls", "date": "November 11 1989", "decade": "1980s", "src": "/storage/frontpages/vfQkCdWymrFYMZlLpffnAAyVCPiToOw1Q4407GSh.png", "summary": "East Germans pour through the wall...", "hotspots": [ { "id": 2178040368315, "title": "Berlin's Wall of Light", "summary": "Video: Berlin's Wall of Light", "top": 45.75, "left": 60.36, "order": 0, "items": [ { "type": "video_upload", "content": "", "video_path": "/storage/videos/Fbuq1hkpLBRACqqUQb0SPMl1uM6MsFANB1VzfT2X.mp4" } ] }, { "id": "2178125642091", "title": "Reaction to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961", "summary": "Reaction to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961", "top": 41.47, "left": 24.18, "order": 1, "items": [ { "type": "image", "content": "", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/HsVZx1iDl5tXiQ5kZhtehMM8CiqVBN9ZlItsFbKk.jpg" } ] } ] }, { "id": 3, "title": "Covid", "date": "March 20 2020", "decade": "2020s", "src": "/storage/frontpages/IlCxH1LcynIW1r0cJR91OltqyZDugC5odZZQZ8nN.png", "summary": "The Covid Pandemic begins", "hotspots": [ { "id": "3178041664453", "title": "17 Artists Capture a Surreal New York From Their Windows", "summary": "Artists on life during Covid", "top": 28.83, "left": 28.82, "order": 0, "items": [ { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "", "quote": "", "contributor": "By Antonio de LucaSasha Portis and Adriana Ramic", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/tZvmjxfkskzw6vKlt1iBIDU4dhHOh2cvOqdtwcWd.png" }, { "type": "text", "content": "Windows are often described as the eyes of a building. They are a symbol of pondering, an aperture through which we can experience the world outside while remaining inside — an important feature now that millions of New Yorkers have had to move their lives indoors.\n\nWe reached out to 17 illustrators and artists currently sheltering in place in neighborhoods across the city and asked them to draw what they see out of their windows, and to show us what it feels like to be in New York at this rare moment in time.\n\nWe received images full of conflicting and immediately recognizable emotions: images that communicate the eerie stillness of the city and make connections to history, odes to essential workers and the changing of the seasons.\n\nThe act of drawing offers a different kind of truth than photography can. It is an additive form where images are built up from a blank surface. Illustration can evoke empathy and bring shared experiences into view as millions of people around the world find themselves in a similar position: staring out their windows, wondering what’s ahead." }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Prospect Heights, Brooklyn", "quote": "My sense of time seems to stretch and shrink in weird ways, and I am working more than ever to escape the dire reality.", "contributor": "JooHee Yoon", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/zOsoJ4alCymeuCr5oV4sS6LQbDnR39LbqctlsYeA.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Rockville Centre, Long Island", "quote": "Everything feels ghostly, and every movement through the neighborhood seems unique and important.", "contributor": "Patrick Edell", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/sIAa5uCvrfzv41Ap2ZSfgzeQdNbRXFQLafbYVixO.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Morningside Heights, Manhattan", "quote": "For three weeks, I have not seen anything move.", "contributor": "Yuko Shimizu", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/HyIJY54qVwhuw8jDaEiECKF0PDQ2pPhCKPmlmVWt.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Park Slope, Brooklyn", "quote": "This drawing is my little ode to delivery people. They’re putting themselves at great risk to keep this city running while medical staff are on the front lines. If you’re able, tip very generously.", "contributor": "Lauren Tamaki", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/GHRpnCdcIl2VDhfALeUDGW6iIZOhwNOaFUrBvLS6.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan", "quote": "Whenever I look out of my window it seems like everything is normal, and that worries me.", "contributor": "Bráulio Amado", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/OsKsxBtR9UWFFsxGbeNKzOBAWL6SSON3Vwf6h6ND.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Ridgewood, Queens", "quote": "It’s as if I’m in a place that looks like New York, but I don’t recognize it at all.", "contributor": "Katherine Lam", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/LD8DY1WEZLgo76FA4AMtRfLX2Iqw3XcZAIDKmNES.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn", "quote": "There’s a tree outside our window that seems like it’s in the apartment with us. Throughout the day I feel a bunch of different things: disconnected, disappointed, sad, angry.", "contributor": "Daniel Salmieri", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/zUEGuZAkdbzCWxxMYTL5sv3pgOlJ269Qp9SvT2HX.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn", "quote": "Looking out the window feels like we’re at a human zoo watching the wild outdoors from the safety of our couch.", "contributor": "Christopher Silas Neal", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/cTjNEpCZKqdUdR2EOJFv8lepBf8wPB1QQgkze4uV.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Clinton Hill, Brooklyn", "quote": "My feelings go from a dull, low-level stress to a heightened sense of connection with all of my neighbors.", "contributor": "Josh Cochran", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/NjVxtqKmSVnxOLMwnSSHQKEADaUwND2nZxQQfIL7.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Mott Haven, the Bronx", "quote": "The economic aspect of this pandemic feels truly terrifying.", "contributor": "Cindy Ji Hye Kim", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/1hSzHngvabtyZHkGF6pOj4eS1aUUNN7RO67XMaoJ.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Forest Hills, Queens", "quote": "At the moment I am worried about what is going to happen when this is all over and wondering when this is going to end.", "contributor": "Normandie Syken", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/6A2KU7l4sM83maCjcF6SjHNKeZDyGAJV1lM8jAGa.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "East Village, Manhattan", "quote": "I have been simultaneously enjoying and being disturbed by the silence at the moment.", "contributor": "Peter Arkle", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/clYjAgzPjL3f0nUnEnAYvArb9E08uiO5ayhRHkYS.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Parkchester, the Bronx", "quote": "In the Bronx, we are banging pots and pans, calling on Cuomo to cancel rent for the tenants in the city during this unprecedented crisis. I feel indignant.", "contributor": "Shellyne Rodriguez", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/rxnU4bTFtCsW1DTGoToCQRrl6ktPFfjIcI8VjYOF.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Astoria, Queens", "quote": "01. THE MORE YOU SEE THE MORE IS SEEN.\r\n02. A MIRACLE—AN ANTIDOTE.\r\n03. SMALL IS STILL BEAUTIFUL", "contributor": "Maziyar Pahlevan", "image_position": "right", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/IeGjnpwEcUJUIE07AVGpSx0nn5FX00s3e92RBSsZ.jpg" }, { "type": "two_col", "content": "", "title": "Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn", "quote": "I’m concerned about how this will affect us in the long run, while hopeful that it might also bring good change. If there is any city full of resilience, ours is a strong contender.", "contributor": "Ping Zhu", "image_position": "left", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/y10BX90SOO8nkCHX8OlvfoDYbqXnpWTIzPe5K2Vd.jpg" } ] }, { "id": "3178040119120", "title": "China Grapples With Mystery Pneumonia-Like Illness", "summary": "First Covid article", "top": 56, "left": 16.03, "order": 1, "items": [ { "type": "text", "content": "Beijing is racing to identify a new illness that has sickened 59 people as it tries to calm a nervous public.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "image", "content": "Health surveillance officers checked temperatures of passengers upon arrival at Hong Kong, on Saturday.Credit...", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/n6ZjAjR4z7LVsO0r49lcquvmjcNjDpAYVObvdbwb.webp" }, { "type": "author", "content": "", "author_name": "By Sui-Lee Wee and Vivian Wang", "author_date": "Jan. 6, 2020" }, { "type": "text", "content": "BEIJING — For days, Li Bin had what felt like a cold, with a high fever of between 102 and 105, and he could not understand why he wasn’t getting better.\n\nAfter four days, he went to a hospital, and a doctor told him he had a form of viral pneumonia, without offering specifics. Mr. Li, 42, was hospitalized, then transferred to another facility and quarantined with other patients who had similarly unexplained symptoms.\n\nMr. Li is one of 59 people in the central city of Wuhan who have been sickened by a pneumonia-like illness, the cause of which is unclear. The cases have alarmed Chinese officials, who are racing to unravel the mystery behind them in a region where the memory of an outbreak of the dangerous respiratory disease known as SARS remains fresh.\n\nSARS originated in China and killed more than 800 people worldwide in 2002 and 2003. At the time, the Chinese government tried to cover up the problem, which is exacerbating fear now about this new illness.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "Symptoms of the new illness include high fever, difficulty breathing and lung lesions, the Wuhan health commission has said. No deaths have been reported but seven people are critically ill. On Sunday, the city government said they had ruled out as causes SARS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), bird flu and the adenovirus.\n\nThe illness appeared just weeks before the Spring Festival, the country’s biggest holiday, when tens of millions of people travel. The authorities urged the public to be on alert for pneumonia-like symptoms like fever, body aches and breathing difficulties.\n\nWorkers wearing hazmat suits disinfected and shut down the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, which also sold poultry, pheasants and wild animal meats, after the city health department said it traced many of the cases to it. Viruses that caused SARS and the H7N9 strain of bird flu in humans were first detected in markets that sold animals and experts have said contact with infected animals was the likeliest source of transmission.\n\nHealth authorities around the region have responded quickly. In Hong Kong, 21 people who had visited Wuhan in recent weeks were hospitalized between Dec. 31 and noon on Monday, according to that city’s health department. Officials said they would install additional thermal imaging systems at the international airport to monitor passengers coming from Wuhan; they also added staff at the high speed rail station to check body temperatures.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "The authorities in Singapore placed a Chinese girl with pneumonia in isolation because she had traveled to Wuhan, then said on Sunday that doctors had found that the child had a common childhood viral illness.\n\nChinese health officials at first appeared to be closely guarding information about the illness. The Wuhan government confirmed on Dec. 31 that health authorities were treating dozens of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause only after an emergency notice to city hospitals was shared on social media sites a day earlier, apparently triggering some public panic.\n\nBut more recently, the government appeared to be moving more quickly to disclose information about new cases in a sign that it has learned its lesson from SARS, said Leo Poon, a public health expert at the University of Hong Kong. “I have to emphasize this is a new disease, and no one on earth has gone through this before,” he said.\n\nMr. Poon said a surge in cases in the coming week would suggest either that the source of the virus had not been eradicated despite the shutdown of the market or that the illness could be transmitted between humans.\n\n“I hope this pathogen is a less harmful one so it would not cause a major epidemic similar to SARS,” he said. “It would be a nightmare for all of us.”", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "Wang Linfa, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, said he was frustrated that scientists in China were not allowed to speak to him about the outbreak. Dr. Wang said, however, that he thought the virus was likely not spreading from humans to humans because health workers had not contracted the disease. “We should not go into panic mode,” he said.\n\nThe World Health Organization said it was closely monitoring the situation and was prepared to mount a broader response, if needed.\n\nIn Hong Kong, residents raced to stockpile surgical masks. On Monday, employees at several pharmacies and convenience stores said they had sold out by lunch time. Watsons, a major chain owned by the family of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, said sales for masks and hand sanitizers increased significantly this week compared with last week.\n\nThe Hong Kong government on Saturday also introduced a new response system for “novel infectious diseases,” citing a desire to avoid repeats of the SARS epidemic or the 2009 swine flu outbreak. In response to the Wuhan cases, the government declared a “serious” response level, the middle tier of the new system, which officials said signaled a “moderate” risk to the local population.\n\nIn Wuhan, Mr. Li, who works for a hotel restaurant, was one of the first patients to fall ill. He came down with a fever on Dec. 23, after visiting the Huanan Seafood Market.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "“It felt like a common cold,” Mr. Li said by telephone. He has since recovered and is set to come home in the next two days. None of his other family members have become sick, according to his wife.\n\nThe authorities have acted swiftly to clamp down on discussion about the outbreak. Censors blocked the hashtag #WuhanSARS. The police said they were investigating eight people in Wuhan for “spreading rumors” online about the disease, an announcement that was met with anger on Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites.\n\n“I don’t have the right to speak and I don’t even know the truth,” one user wrote. “Don’t I have the right to panic and save myself?”\n\nVivian Wang reported from Hong Kong. Elaine Yu contributed reporting in Hong Kong, and Elsie Chen contributed research in Beijing.", "is_subhead": false } ] }, { "id": 3178056415750, "title": "Photos: Empty spaces during Covid", "summary": "Gallery: Empty Spaces", "top": 75, "left": 67.83, "order": 3, "items": [ { "type": "gallery", "content": "", "slides": [ { "caption": "Chairs", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/EhlFg2XG87thIicxtMbOveRqJlGTAQixcEGgEEKt.jpg" }, { "caption": "Interior", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/OpbZtBSFmkasfZkrbdb0JrVvfK7AR8vfDskQE7WW.jpg" }, { "caption": "Brazil", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/DvAyEHKkicnFlhSCrZ395LXx7zqdo1ebquojlhxl.jpg" }, { "caption": "Rome", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/vF8j3LeOEeQEz3df4GfkiUe4X4AuGVGewUKfm9K6.jpg" }, { "caption": "Heislerts", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/nUKgcnCtGVpgjebQ3F5k6klLvZsPSW26mXvwq279.jpg" }, { "caption": "Mantovaniandrea", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/453CnmJSqCy21nsQg4jn9oVf4zxmRRoioq5kFKl4.jpg" }, { "caption": "Pana", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/2wEQdJfy6OvBLrDgDK9KZ6rDp8T6doq6IJXE3tST.jpg" }, { "caption": "Street", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/OvzgE7DYmzFREagtxGwayV2ataUZlwSZdBtSnwcw.jpg" }, { "caption": "TO REPLACE", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/AFthBM9h8pMYqSWKSQzQeZjpP0jr61KSV0M8Ons3.jpg" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 4, "title": "Men Walk On Moon", "date": "21 July 1969", "decade": "1960s", "src": "/storage/frontpages/vHUciMDFXPRdVvYAo0Tfqj3Zw41JYCe9IVRX5OdM.png", "summary": "\"Eagle has landed\"", "hotspots": [ { "id": 4178040160675, "title": "1968 Magazine Cover", "summary": "1968 Magazine Cover", "top": 42.47, "left": 13.61, "order": 0, "items": [ { "type": "image", "content": "", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/5W7qiIZzZGsM4a9iH0sPsxbEoLi3SS5UOzPphYn1.jpg" } ] }, { "id": 4178041415380, "title": "Reporting The Moon Landing", "summary": "Reporting The Moon Landing", "top": 39.97, "left": 72.16, "order": 1, "items": [ { "type": "video_upload", "content": "John Noble Wilford tells how, as a New York Times science reporter in July 1969, he wrote the front page article “Men Walk on Moon.” It is the first interview in a new Times series, “I Was There.”", "video_path": "/storage/videos/iwasthere_v1.mp4" } ] } ] }, { "id": 5, "title": "WW2 Over", "date": "8 May 1945", "decade": "1940s", "src": "/storage/frontpages/hhjypDExTCFfHtuj43rORBH9a6EEkmNQi0EZ5L25.jpg", "summary": "VE Day declared", "hotspots": [ { "id": 5178040561496, "title": "The World War II You Don’t Know", "summary": "The World War II You Don’t Know", "top": 33.52, "left": 68.1, "order": 0, "items": [ { "type": "text", "content": "To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the conflict’s end, a special section that grew out of a yearlong project brings to light overlooked stories of bravery and adversity.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "image", "content": "", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/TBsZjX8lAPzXOA5TnsCwy5Ft9dqXtelaPrqAwYbD.jpg" }, { "type": "author", "content": "", "author_name": "By John Grippe", "author_date": "Sept. 5, 2020" }, { "type": "text", "content": "Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.\r\n\r\nSome of the most enduring images of World War II come from the Holocaust, the blitzkrieg, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stories about the six-year global conflict that killed tens of millions of soldiers and civilians often surround these events, but they are hardly the only ones.\r\n\r\nAbout 75 years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, hostilities formally ended when Allied powers and Chinese and Japanese government officials signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. This weekend, The New York Times is marking the anniversary with a 24-page special section, “Unsung History.”\r\n\r\nThe section is a culmination of the series “Beyond the World War II We Know,” which since January has documented lesser-known stories about the war and its aftermath through original reporting and first-person accounts. Inside the section are stories about the all-female, all-Black mail battalion who ran the fastest and most reliable mail directory in the European Theater; about Black troops who returned from the war only to confront more racism at home; and about Japanese-Americans who moved from internment camps to a shabby trailer camp in Burbank, Calif.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "Contributors to the section included Times journalists; Alexander Chee, a Korean-American author and essayist; Yoko Ogawa, a Japanese novelist and short-story writer; and the actor, writer and producer Tom Hanks.\n\nLauren Katzenberg, who heads The Times’s At War team, and Dan Saltzstein, deputy editor for Special Sections, led the entire project. The number of people who could still provide eyewitness accounts is diminishing all the time, Mr. Saltzstein said, adding, “This is probably the last chance we’re going to be able to hear from them.”\n\nThe team wanted to push beyond the “typical, expected World War II coverage,” he said. On Oct. 31, The Times invited readers who served in the war, or whose family members did, to share stories and photographs via a form on the Times website. About 500 responses poured in, Ms. Katzenberg said. “It was just really incredible to get such a response, and to read everyone’s stories,” she said.\n\nOn Jan. 7, The Times published another invitation, this one aimed at civilians from anywhere in the world who lived through the war. Over 140 responses rolled in. Jake Nevins, who was the editorial fellow at The New York Times Magazine, wrote several accounts based on responses from readers and interviews with them. Three of these accounts appear in the section.\n\nFor the special task of writing the section’s introduction, Mr. Saltzstein approached Mr. Hanks, who has worked extensively to chronicle the war through films and television series like “Saving Private Ryan,” “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” and, most recently, “Greyhound.”", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "Mr. Hanks agreed to write the introduction, in which he explores the legacy of the war. “World War II and its history is something that Tom Hanks is really invested in,” Ms. Katzenberg said, adding, “We were really thrilled to have him on board.”\n\nIn order to include “the creative perspective,” Mr. Saltzstein said, he asked Mr. Chee, the Korean-American author, to contribute. In his essay, he wrote that his grandfather had told him that he dreamed in Japanese, and that eventually Mr. Chee learned that this was because the Japanese tried to systematically erase Korea’s culture during its occupation of the country from 1910 to 1945.\n\nMr. Saltzstein said he also wanted to invite a writer who could offer a distinctly Japanese point of view. Ms. Ogawa, who has written many novels in Japanese — only a few of which have been translated into English — contributed an essay about how literature is essential to retaining memories of the atomic bombings. She writes only in Japanese, so a translator, Stephen Snyder, worked with The Times to translate her correspondence and her essay into English, Mr. Saltzstein said. Versions of her essay were published online in English and in Japanese — and the Japanese version has attracted more readers, he said.\n\nMixed in with the text in the special section are dozens of archival photographs that readers are unlikely to have seen. Anika Burgess, a Times photo editor, found these photographs by searching The Times’s archives. She also found photographs from Getty Images, The Associated Press, museums and universities, Ms. Katzenberg said.\n\n“We really wanted to talk about the history through a different lens,” she said, “and that also meant finding photography to go with those stories, which was at times really challenging. But Anika was able to track down excellent photography for every single story that we did.”", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "text", "content": "Working on the project “was often moving,” Mr. Saltzstein said. Having what is probably one of the last chances to hear from eyewitnesses was “a terrific responsibility on our part, and it had a deep effect on me,” he added.\n\nMs. Katzenberg took satisfaction in including not only unknown acts of bravery but also darker narratives that have been overlooked. “In remembering war,” she said, “we have to recognize those moments, too; only then can we come to terms with a conflict’s true costs.”", "is_subhead": false } ] }, { "id": "5178040571785", "title": "World War II After 75 Years: Beyond the War We Know", "summary": "WWII after 75 years", "top": 62.64, "left": 33.58, "order": 1, "items": [ { "type": "text", "content": "We set out to explore the end of the conflict and its aftermath, focusing on lesser-known stories both personal and profound.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "video_upload", "content": "The U.S.S. Missouri and Allied planes in Tokyo Bay on the day of Japan’s surrender, Sept. 2, 1945; a California-bound bus from the Gila River Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp in Rivers, Ariz.; the all-female, all-Black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion at the marketplace in Rouen, France, in May 1945.CreditCredit...", "video_path": "/storage/videos/X5XLFofUAUqUB4MjxxLH32BUb8ZmplrOaUr4BkZs.mp4" }, { "type": "text", "content": "Sept. 2, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of World War II, a conflict that changed millions of lives and the course of global history. For our Beyond the World War II We Know series, we set out to recount stories both personal and profound, and explore the end of the war and its aftermath. Here is a selection of those articles.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Cyril W. Spiegelhoff of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee leads a group of kneeling American soldiers in prayer in Cologne, Germany, in April 1945.Credit...Margaret Bourke-White/The Life Picture Collection, via Getty Images", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/fzNrgf7Fi6WsXzyUVUT9SZ7JmJlzs8pS6k4yZJOI.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "We Are Still Living the Legacy of World War II", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Act III of the war — After the War — is now simply part of our daily reality, in America and globally, writes Tom Hanks.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Staff Sgt. Herbert Ellison explaining the G.I. Bill to fellow members of the 15th Air Force Service Command in Italy, circa 1944-45.Credit...Library of Congress/Corbis, via VCG, via Getty Images", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/ojPxq1Kr9ZFJHUFJThHduDd4voZLb6oGJaGeIudv.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "Returning From War, Returning to Racism", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "After fighting overseas, Black soldiers faced violence and segregation at home. Many, like Lewis W. Matthews, were forced to take menial jobs. Although he managed to overcome racist policies, that wasn’t an option for many.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Katsumoto Saotome at his home in Tokyo with his hachimaki headband from World War II. He worked at a factory to support the war when he was 12. He and other students sometimes wore the headbands on their way to work.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/hA3i9irR1pdjiysdxCKnNGDVpMYrYLxQ6kRkEL8m.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "As a child, Katsumoto Saotome barely escaped the air raids over Tokyo that killed as many as 100,000 people. He has spent much of his life fighting to honor the memories of others who survived.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "The Japanese flag is lowered in Seoul, Korea, after the Japanese surrender.Credit...PhotoQuest/Getty Images", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/Mmt4wIMNQq2ncDgfZTBCYVqqOPTyl7EFVU7KthJn.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Decades after the war ended, scars left by the Japanese occupation persist for millions of Koreans and Korean-Americans, including the author Alexander Chee.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Lt. Richard Gross served as a B-29 navigator on 35 missions over Japan in 1945. Most of those were low-level nighttime missions dropping firebombs on Japanese cities.Credit...From Richard Gross", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/J129DMTUS8PhBCddsBC1dNqCc7Kgy4MBFZXTjapc.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "‘We Hated What We Were Doing’: Veterans Recall Firebombing Japan", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "American airmen who took part in the 1945 firebombing missions grapple with the particular horror they witnessed being inflicted on those below.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "The 6888th Battalion taking part in a parade in May 1945 in honor of Joan of Arc at the marketplace in Rouen, France, where she was burned at the stake.Credit...National Archives", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/k9cbop4HjihzGtErHjpB5nJQiHRSTVsmSvyH6Ddx.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was set up to determine the value Black women brought to the military. They ultimately ran the fastest mail service in the European Theater during World War II, though their actions weren’t recognized until more half a century later.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "A view of Hiroshima from Higi-Yama, a hill that rises in the eastern part of the city, about one to two months after the bombing.Credit...Collection Japanese/Magnum Photos", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/7amFzpzdI35vOJraP6JftrNLcjq1WAjIb32frNe0.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "How We Retain the Memory of Japan’s Atomic Bombings: Books", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Literature is a refuge we turn to when we are forced to confront contradictions that lie beyond reason, writes the Japanese novelist Yoko Ogawa.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Stasha Seaton, in 1943, at the top of the Empire State Building.Credit...From Stasha Seaton", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/zKzdBavZRhmLHzwaLwNKNevG5MAU1I4hMwTIb2Pz.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "I Fled Yugoslavia in 1941. Then I Returned to Join the Resistance.", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Stasha Seaton returned to Yugoslavia in 1944 to join the National Liberation struggle, a resistance campaign made up of a variety of anti-fascist left-wing groups, including smaller movements and Josep Tito’s Communist National Liberation Army. She recounted her story to Jake Nevins.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Maj. Claude Eatherly, the only service member who flew in the atomic bombing missions and later publicly expressed remorse for what he had done.Credit...Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/E4miyzwVXoLbQC1G31Gkg4mnPsMxQleyV75ZZZcj.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "The Hiroshima Pilot Who Became a Symbol of Antinuclear Protest", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Claude Eatherly spent years punishing himself for his role in the first atomic bombing. His public remorse made him an international celebrity.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "The 7800th Infantry Platoon, an honor guard of Black troops, greeting dignitaries in Berlin in 1949 during the Allied occupation of Germany.Credit...U.S. Army/National Archives", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/VStDRxetgkBAqpKXUSWPxEkBZgRx9ofBYenAUc4f.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "When Jim Crow Reigned Amid the Rubble of Nazi Germany", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "Thousands of African-American troops were sent to a defeated Germany to promote democracy, even as they were confined to the social order of Jim Crow.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "U.S. Army Cpl. Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Allach concentration camp on April 30, 1945, in Germany.Credit...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/Zf0vjoS6zOpFYOzG3ugWxvfsz1FAPYOF0WPkeZgP.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "For Some Holocaust Survivors, Even Liberation Was Dehumanizing", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "“If their eyes were mirrors, it seems I’m not far from dead.” After being freed by Allied troops, some former prisoners continued to be mistreated.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Celebrations in London. Credit...Courtesy of The National World War II Museum", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/DymiBvpBopSEHsuiF2PtWNjfgWcAB7G0M2PfIMlS.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "How V-E Day Echoed Around the World", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "From jubilation in the streets of New York and Nairobi to solemn moments on the front lines.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "The U.S.S. Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945, the official date of the Japanese surrender.Credit...National Archives", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/2KrkpBsJryCtj620KVIcWiXiloO9zrvsplc5vEpw.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "The Japanese Surrender: A Sailor’s Perspective", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "What the end of a long war might have been like for a sailor in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Temporary housing in the Winona trailer camp in Burbank, Calif., in 1946. A year earlier, the occupants had lived in internment camps.Credit...Los Angeles Daily News Negatives (Collection 1387). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/R7thwcwo2Tvh5D4X0hAF1xyusdftAMLQk3inZL2v.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "For Japanese-Americans, Housing Injustices Outlived Internment", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "In 1945, thousands of Japanese-Americans were released from internment camps. But they couldn’t return to the world they left.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Fanny Blankers-Koen crossing the finish line in 11.9 seconds to win the Women’s 100-meter final in the Summer Olympic Games in 1948.Credit...Associated Press", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/nUP6Rm6dtXsp5lUgDTCu12auh9ze5MkbGG5Rogyr.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "At the Olympics in Bombed-Out London, She Forever Changed Women’s Sports", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "The 1948 Summer Games, the first held after the war, were a celebration of improvisation, renewal and change, embodied in a Dutch track star named Fanny Blankers-Koen.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Members of the 201st Fighter Squadron of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force, which was attached to the Fifth Air Force during World War II, at Clark Field in the Philippines.Credit...Bettmann/Getty Images", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/6Is7LuYtg6sWAwPUVxSefAQyzjJJ3ddiG7aTpql7.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "When the Mexican Air Force Went to War Alongside America", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "In 1945, the 201st Mexican Fighter Squadron helped the U.S. Army Air Forces defeat Japan — significantly changing relations between the two allies after the war.", "is_subhead": false }, { "type": "image", "content": "Nepalese soldiers, or Gurkhas, manning a mortar during training exercises in what was then British-occupied Malaya, January 1942.", "image_path": "/storage/hotspots/zKj6m3ZD3C124ViBtmqQLIZ0Ayi4cJjco98jZaZj.webp" }, { "type": "text", "content": "The Forgotten Colonial Forces of World War II", "is_subhead": true }, { "type": "text", "content": "“There’s a scattered memory of their sacrifice all over Europe.” The Allied powers relied on colonial troops to defeat the Axis, but their contributions are not often recognized.", "is_subhead": false } ] } ] } ] }