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Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.

Africa's Medical History Revealed

Review of Health, Healing and Illness in African History, by Rebekah Lee (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021)
… sickness, the Spanish Influenza , cholera , bubonic plague, HIV/AIDS , syphilis, leprosy, ebola as well as …
 Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

… when we get the Comstock laws. This goes back to after the plagues in the Middle Ages, there was witch hunting crazes, … about population bouncing back from these devastating plagues. And so one way to attack that is to attack …

Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… any race or ethnicity). Ultimately, however, Woodhull was plagued by scandals, some of her own making and others that … Federation of America. Like Woodhull, however, Ferraro was plagued by scandal, most of which related to her husband’s …
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

… orbiting a nucleus explained some of the anomalies that had plagued the periodic system from the start. The periodic …
Logo for "Canada 150".

Canada 150: Coming Home

… the extremes of income and regional inequality that have plagued the US and did so through a series of political …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… “What would Dr. King say about…?” arises in a world still plagued by hunger, poverty, terrorism, and war. It will not …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… and immigrants at the turn of the century, police brutality plagued cities as well. Newspapers noted the frequency with … a stolen car on foot. Black leaders in Memphis, a city long plagued by police brutality, called for a boycott on white …