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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	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	The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”	The Space In Between
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’”	Memories of Vietnam in Memoriam	By Invitation Only
A Long History of Close Shaves	(Bicycle) Wheels of Change	Baseball Without Borders

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