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

Haiti's National Palace, the president's official residence, stands in ruins following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.
The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle
Vegetables from ecological farming.
Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.
Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States.
Zealous Moderates: Barack Obama and William Howard Taft
Taxation without Representation, Suffrage Collection.
Death, Taxes, and the American Founders
Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff stands before an image of her mentor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula).
South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election
John Quincy Adams.
WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of Recent Vintage in the History of American Diplomacy
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.
The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.
“Party Like It’s 1892!”
A soldier stands guard at the U.S.-Mexican border in 1916.
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy
Family members of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble attending his Medal of Honor ceremony.
Honoring Native American Veterans This Veterans Day
Stock photo of a pen on paper.
History News Service Feeds Popular Hunger for Good History and Good Journalism
Saxonburg Memorial Church.
Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?
Richesons Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
The Separation of Church and State Is Rooted in American Christianity
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.
A Question of Power, Not Sex
Lady Liberty, wearing a cape labeled "Votes for Women," stands astride the states (colored white) that had adopted suffrage. A poem by Alice Duer Miller is printed beneath.
Smile, You’re a Liberal After All!
President Obama signing the new student loan legislation in March 2010.
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Final Vote.
True Bipartisanship Is Not Love and Kisses
Jenni Williams (Left) and Magodonga Mahlangu (Center) of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) receiving the Robert F. Kenndey Human Rights Award from President Barack Obama in November 2009.
The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.
How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice
Soccer fans, painted in the colors of South Africa's flag, celebrate the coming of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa.
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).
Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur
Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy meeting with Kagan.
What’s Wrong With Kagan’s Confirmation Hearings
President Obama and McChrystal in the Oval Office in May 2009.
The Presidents and the McGenerals
President George W. Bush signs "No Child Left Behind" into law in 2002.
Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.
A Vanishing American Remembrance?
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus to help understand its particularly deadly effects.
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again
STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.
Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space
First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.
The Distant Horizon of a President
This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.
Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference
Reagan in 1982.
Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?
A sign illustrating Level 5 Water Restrictions in Goulburn, New South Wales, 2006, during the worst of Australia's decade-long drought.
Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis
A collection of packaged food items.
Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.
Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power
members of the Tea Party holding signs
The Great American Debate Recommences
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.
Choking Off Our Past
Obama wore Isabel Toledo clothes made of St. Gallen Embroidery to the 2009 presidential inauguration.
Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?
British scientist Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' idealized 1900 depiction of (left to right) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson of the Committee of Five working on the Declaration.
Stealing the First Amendment from the People
An insurance form with pills.
“Hands off My Medicare”: The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance
Jaycee Dugard was found in August, 2009 18 years after her abduction. While most child abductions by strangers do not end so well, historian Paula Fass points out that stranger abductions comprise only a small percentage of child kidnapping cases even though they receive the lion's share of media attention. Fear over stranger abductions has grown in the United States since the 19th century, and often results more from general fears about society than the actual safety of individual children.
Child Kidnapping in America
Map of the Gaza Strip in May 2005, a few months prior to the Israeli withdrawal. The major settlement blocs were the blue-shaded regions of this map.
Threads of Hope Glimmer in the Middle East
Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement.
Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen
President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017.
How the Vice President Can Serve as the President’s Most Unbiased Adviser
Stalin's boots are all that remain of his statue in Budapest.
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
President Reagan in February 1985.
Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?