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The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.
The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record

The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.
The Rodina Flight
Detail of an 8th-century silk painting depicting Wu Zeitan.
Wu Zetian: The Only Woman Emperor in Chinese History
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.
Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".
Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.
Who Was Typhoid Mary?
Illustration of global public health by Giovanni Maki, 2004.
The WHO and International Public Health
Depiction of the Battle of Bosworth Field by the eighteenth-century painter, Philip James de Loutherbourg.
The Battle of Bosworth Field
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District
1885: A European Colonial Dream and an African Nightmare
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it
Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money
Portrait photograph of woman, boy and two dogs, ca. 1890s.
How Dogs Became Our Faithful Family Companions
US Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Beijing Legation Quarter, 1900 – copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer
The Boxer Rebellion
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.
Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century
The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.
The University of Algiers Library Bombing
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.
The Birth and Death of USAID
On the first day of the uprising, protesters assembled around the fountain outside the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, a site that would become central to the struggle against military oppression. Courtesy of the 5.18 Foundation.
Gwangju Isn’t Over
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
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.
Discovering Pluto
Zimbabwe Flag against a blue sky
Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.
Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.
Beethoven’s First Symphony
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.
Greenland Fantasies
Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco.
Top Ten Origins: Popes Before 1500
Women from Jericho's Palestinian refugee camp going to fetch water, 1961.
An Environmental “Nakba”: Water, Trees, and Farms as Tools of Israeli Policy Toward Palestine
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.
Albania’s First Republic
Hollywood Movie store in Hong Kong, 2010.
Film, Television, and China’s (New) Cold War
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo.
The Air Force Investigation into UFOs
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)
Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport
Female governors left to right, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ella T. Grasso, Kay Orr, and Gretchen Whitmer.
A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024
Government of National Unity in 2009. Left to right: Arthur Mutambara, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Thabo Mbeki.
A Lesson for South Africa? Zimbabwe’s Path to Multi-Party Rule
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.
The United States: Democracy or Republic?
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.
The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts
The Norwegians Land in Iceland 872 by Oscar Wergeland (1877).
Why We Love the Vikings
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD, Oil on Canvas, Robert Hubert, 1785. In the Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux; Le Havre, France.
The Great Fire of Rome
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.
How Green Is the Atom?
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
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.
The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War
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
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.
The Taiwan Strait Conflict
The South Korean flag in Seoul, South Korea.
The Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun and the Patterns of South Korean Politics
The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.
Solar Eclipses in American History
Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922
The Long End of the Ottoman Empire