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Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980.
The WHO and the Eradication of Smallpox
Patrice Lumumba, right, and Joseph Okito, left
Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium
The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896
Top back row: Toyama Mitsuru, Abraham Woodhull, Aldrich Ames, Francis Walsingham, Front Row is Adolf G. Tolkachev, Mata Hari, Klaus Fuchs, and Elizabeth Van Lew
History's Top Spies
Bob Campbell Photograph Of Dian Fossey Filming Orphaned Gorillas Coco And Pucker, Rwanda 1969, Bob Campbell
Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham take on Vietnamese refugees in 1975
Defining Refugees
ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said
The Suez Crisis (1956)
bowl of pills with a black background
The Past and Future of the Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Finale)
Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
members of the red cross during the 1918 flu pandemic
What Came Next?: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of COVID
seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Heroin bust.
Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.
“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.
The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)
pile of syringes
The Global War on Drugs
Soviet and US Flags
Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War
Buildings along a waterfront in China
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai
The Suez Crisis (1956)
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
A protestor in London holds a sign with an excerpt from the poem 'The New Colossus.'
Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story
migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it
Diet for a Large Planet

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