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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

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
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza
A painting by Siu Luna.
Another Silent Spring
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.
The Blood Behind the Beauty
Harper's Weekly illustration
Top Ten Contested Political Conventions
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
a woman caring for someone with HIV
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
Alert soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate, during the Spartacist Uprising
Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.
Work and Life after COVID-19
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
This Dutch UNPROFOR observation post in Srebrenica took heavy fire from Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.
Srebrenica and its Memory
A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., signing the UN Charter on 26 June 1945. President Truman stands by at left (UN Photo/Yould).
The Signing of the United Nations Charter
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.
Early American Contagions
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.
Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.
The Justinianic Plague
Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period.
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.
The Black Death and its Aftermath
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
2,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv protest a proposed coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis
Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and King Frederick William III and Queen Louise of Prussia in Tilsit.
The Global Reach of the Napoleonic Wars
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Kent State after Fifty Years
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism