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SpaghettiOs in background, tv dinner, Tang bottle, Spam tin and Jello mold in foreground
SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods
Armed United Mine Workers of America strikers, Ludlow 1914, Public Domain
The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914
Bird's-eye view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.
Fortificación de la frontera entre EEUU y México: el experimento “Hold the Line” de 1993
Bird's-eye view of the 1993 border blockade enacted by CBP Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas as part of Operation Hold the Line.
Fortifying the U.S.-Mexico Boundary: The 1993 “Hold the Line” Experiment
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
horseshoe shape made up of people
From College Towns into Knowledge Towns: On the Future of Town/Gown Relations
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.
Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy
a woman wearing old pilot goggles on her head and holding a bottle of Coca-Cola
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Motorcycles lined up on Main St. in Sturgis, South Dakota, 2014.
“Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism
A 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Buildings along a waterfront in China
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
Kismet is a robot that can produce a range of human facial expressions.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
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
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
The flags or seals of three central banks.
Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
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
doctor holding a COVID swab
Pandemics and Public Policy
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid