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The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous

Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg
Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Book Cover.
Hanoi Central
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, by Michael Neiberg Book Cover.
How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour, by Simon Kuper Book cover.
Is It Only A Game?
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.
He Led His People Into the Desert
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.
What to Do About the Money?
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.
Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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