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The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power	Killing the Arctic	Another Silent Spring
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday	“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism	The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective	A Century of HIV	America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle	Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth	The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
Russia and the Race for the Arctic	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
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America	Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal	'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again	Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis	Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts	A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters	Africa's Medical History Revealed
Science Beseiged	The Rise of Freethinkers	Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science	Built Upon Bounty	Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages	The Space In Between	Executive Conservation
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?	Rough Weather Ahead	Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps	Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?	Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?	Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors	Famine: A Short History
Before There Was Swine Flu	The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction	In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism	Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect	Diet for a Large Planet
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis	"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment	The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19	Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing	The Global History of HIV
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19	Black Canadians and Pandemics	Climate Change: Insights from History
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance	Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza	What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era	Work and Life after COVID-19	Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
Early American Contagions	Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19	Cholera and the Roots of Public Health

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