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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
A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State
A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
Las raíces del estado de fallido venezolano
A protester against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2014 with "Liberty" written on his hands.
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"
Crowds watching Obaysch.
What's All Happening at the Zoo?
A 2016 protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock
A container ship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus
Chinese Banknotes.
The United States, China, and the Money Question
Color bars in a television test pattern.
Media and Politics in the Age of Trump
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?
Flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army.
Colombia: Al Borde de la Paz con las FARC?