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… The “Justinianic Plague” is the popular name for a pandemic of bubonic plague in the Late Roman or Byzantine Empire, which first … thought that rats were the primary “vectors” of the disease—meaning that they were the animals that carried the fleas, …

… From Plague to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of … plays out. We're all figuring things out and trying to make meaning from this novel time. Yet, this is not the first … four time periods. And for those keeping score at home, the plagues the plagues are both bacterial while influenza and …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted Rome, from 541 to 549 CE, during the time of emperor Justinian. The bubonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , persisted …

… that the distinction between “military” and “civilian” is meaningless in modern warfare. But will we feel the same way …

… … Islam … Intellectual History … What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist' …

… Ball, in Washington, D.C., is now sharply criticized as a demeaning and outdated depiction of emancipation: the …

… aimed at those who favor the notion that the Constitution’s meaning is not frozen but should evolve and change. Scalia believed that the meaning of the text had been fixed at the time of its … to desegregate public schools.  Originalism continues to be plagued by a “Brown problem.” The consensus among legal …

… evolution. These microbes have assumed many forms, from plague , influenza , and HIV to cholera, smallpox, polio, … a disease in people who were otherwise in good health: the Plague of Athens (430-426 BCE). The disease, he wrote, … Greek world from across the Mediterranean in North Africa. "Plague in an Ancient City" (1652-1654) by Michiel Sweerts …

… Petrograd and elsewhere in the Empire, and that gained real meaning in 1917. But over the course of the summer, as I … could also change course a little bit, but add to that the meanings of 1917, and what Nick said about the Great War …

… institutions, just the acknowledgement and itself is so meaningful. You know, to acknowledge and say, hey, we're a … well, you know, checking boxes and making actual, you know, meaningful inclusion of folks in the conversation? And so I …

… and academic biography. Lyndal Roper’s Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy grapples with … reviled dreams and warned against reading into their meanings. Chapter 5 “Living I Was Your Plague” deals with Luther’s dying words and his ferocious …

… sheer, like insulation, of white suburbs, from any kind of meaningful integration is the very thing that allows some …

… his top 10 videos that “do” history well; that is, offer meaningful interpretations about the past or otherwise … … Focusing on films that “do” history well; that is, offer meaningful interpretations about the past or otherwise …

… they want to use antiquity to say that race exists as a meaningful category. For example, I think what the ancient …

… disease, including of malaria, cholera , influenza , and plague . Interior of a temporary hospital for plague victims in Bombay, 1896-1897. For instance, the bubonic plague, which arrived in India in 1896 on the heels of a …