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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	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
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	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)

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