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We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest	The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History	Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds
History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus	The Year of Africa	Another Silent Spring
The American Dream after COVID-19	Pandemics: Today and Yesterday	Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration	What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments	Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American "Elite"	What's All Happening at the Zoo?	The Hajj and Europe
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates	Singapore at Fifty	Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?	Good Guys and Bad Guys with Guns: Gun Control in Canada and the U.S.	China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”
The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family	The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History	Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective
Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill	From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States	Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks	'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan	Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
Child Kidnapping in America	The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan	Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
The Real Marriage Revolution	Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future	Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age
Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?	Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya	The Politics of International Adoption
Africa's Medical History Revealed	Science Beseiged	A History of Athens Beyond Decline
The Missing "Third" of the Third World	Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate	When Free Trade Meant Something Else
The Rise of Freethinkers	The Blood Behind the Beauty	Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science	Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America	When the Soviets Domesticated the West
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies	Modern China and Its Institutions	Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
The Iberian Realm of Islam	From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth	The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
Built Upon Bounty	Sanitizing American Tradition	Russia’s Lost Empire
The Old Informing the New	"Lone Wolves" No More	From Dixie to the Third Reich
“No law can change our blood"	The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation	From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War

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