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A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Thousands of Greeks went on strike and threw stones at the police.
The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
A 2018 Anti-War rally in Chicago.
Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006
Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
Billy Graham in Amsterdam in 1954.
Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
The mushroom cloud from a 1954 high-yield thermonuclear weapon test.
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea
A child working in a Congolese gold mine in 2009.
A New Congo Crisis?
A 2017 protest over a monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments
Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ.
Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth
Interstate 80 near Berkeley, CA.
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
A 2016 street mural in Lithuania depicting the 'fraternal kiss.'
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes in 1972.
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Libertad Protester
The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
Libertad Protester
Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano
Libertad Protester
当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源
Refugees at the Macedonian border in 2015.
The Question of Refugees: Past and Present
Yale students leaving class in the 1950s.
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"