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

Cover of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy Ann Pettit and Janice Bailie.
Before There Was Swine Flu
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.
Blood and Steel
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
Cover of A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century by William Chester Jordan.
To Serve God and the King?
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Famine: A Short History
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.
The End of the World as They Knew It
Cover of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.
Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.
How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.
Babylon Revisited
Cover of Trotsky A Biography by Robert Service.
Trotsky: A Biography
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
The Anatomy Murders
Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.
What's in a Name?
Cover of A History of Iran Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy.
Iran for Beginners
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber.
The Far Right Stuff
Cover of Guantánamo, USA The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost by Stephen Irving Max Schwab.
Guantanamo For Beginners
Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. Anthony and  Jennifer Y. Chi.
The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC
Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson
Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957
Cover of The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand
The End of the World as We Know It?
Cover of Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Hanioğlu.
Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.
A Suit, or a Statement?
Cover of A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis.
A Short History of Celebrity
Cover of Sexual Injustice Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe by Marc Stein.
The Sexual Revolution that Wasn’t Quite
Cover of A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom.
Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons
Cover of Song of Wrath The Peloponnesian War Begins by J. E. Lendon.
A Time For War
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Cover of A Strange Stirring The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz.
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Cover of With Our Backs to the Wall Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson.
The End of the War as They Knew It
 Cover of Chivalry in Medieval England by Nigel Saul
Knighthood As It Was, Not As We Wish It Were
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.
The Man Who Re-Invented China
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.
The Gifts That Keep On Giving
Cover of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd
Patriot or Pragmatist?
Cover of The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire by Raymond Jonas
When Ethiopia Stunned the World
Cover of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David SchefferDavid S
Bringing Evil to Justice
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam
The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Figuring Out the Shape of the World
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
Spraying Pesticides - NARA 1940
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.
A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404
Cover of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II by Karel C. Berkhoff
Long Live the Soviet Motherland?
Paul Ryan, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ryan’s Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden
In 2007, Russia planted a titanium flag in the chilly arctic depths at the North Pole.
Russia and the Race for the Arctic
Signal Soldiers train to protect against Nuclear Biological and Chemical threats.
The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry
The father of a Syrian general killed in the civil war attends his son's funeral in Damascus in January 2012.
Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising