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

A protestor in London holds a sign with an excerpt from the poem 'The New Colossus.'
Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.
Native Americans in Urban Places
migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
Gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos raise their fists.
We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest
Cover of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson.
The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.
The Legacy of Luther
U.S. Marines play baseball in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.
Africa's Medical History Revealed
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
The caryatids of the Erechtheum at the Acropolis.
Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds
Herd of horses on desert-steppe
A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
A rainbow version of the Ohio City neighborhood flag.
Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Olympics
Revival and Reinvention: the Olympic Games, Athens 1896
Attica
A History of Athens Beyond Decline
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee
Recovering the History of the French Far-Right
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19
A protestor in Minsk watches the August 2020 demonstrations.
History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.
The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty
The Missing "Third" of the Third World
U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)
Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces
Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
General Idi Amin in August, 1973.
Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
The flags or seals of three central banks.
Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
Emancipation Memorial Statue
Emancipation by What Means?
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
A carved wooden mural in Livingstone, Zambia.
The Year of Africa
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837
Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate
Port of Buenos Aires
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19
Malawi
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi
On the left, the flag of the United Nations. On the right, the flag of the United States of America.
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
The Death of Franco
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.
Black Canadians and Pandemics
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats
The Rise of Freethinkers
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine