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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	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	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	The Justinianic Plague	The Black Death and its Aftermath
The Respirator and Cloth Mask	COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership	Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
Pandemics: Past, Present, Future	Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety	Fly Me to the Moon

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