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Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

Logo of General Motors.svg
The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors
Elderly Mennonite couple in Pennsylvania.
Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort.
The “Invisible Guest” World Food Campaign of the 1920s Should Be a Model for Us Today
Centennial Seal of the Land Grant Colleges
The 1862 Morrill Act Honored the Liberal Arts As Well As Technical Education
Depiction of Isaac Newton
A “God Particle” for Isaac Newton’s Birthday
The Great Dome at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio, 2012.
From Commonplace to Controversial: The Different Histories of Abortion in Europe and the United States
Hurricane Sandy Rockaway
Hurricane Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore
Soup Cans by Andy Warhol - https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79809
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
Detail from the painting Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the French Revolution of 1830.
Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.
Shakespeare For All Time
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne Book Cover
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, by Donald Critchlow Book Cover.
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stout Book cover.
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Bruce Kuklick book cover.
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips book cover.
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs book cover.
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England, by Juliet Barker Little, Brown and Company book cover.
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.
Islamic Imperialism: A History
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge, by Roxanne L. Euben book cover.
Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge
A Day in a Medieval City, by Chiara Frugoni Book Cover
A Day in a Medieval City
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean, by Peter Earle Book Cover
The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover
The Jamestown Project
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, by Eric D. Weitz Book Cover
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff Book Cover
Children at Play: An American History
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire
American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, by Laura Levitt Book Cover
American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover
Byzantium for Dummies
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover
The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover
Clashing Shades of Red
Cover of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.
The Battle For 1948
President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland, 10/12/1986
The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the Nuclear Arms Reduction Efforts Begun by President Reagan in Reykjavik
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue.
Movement North
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.
Invisible Man
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Cover of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel.
God for Nazis
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.
A Man for All Seasons
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.
Taking it on the Chin