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Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… discrimination, segregation, and economic hardship still plague our society especially in American cities, where …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… think of humanitarian crises as forces of nature, droughts, plagues, crop failures. All of these, we assume, are the …
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.

Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor

… whose intolerance instigated the communal violence that plagues South Asia today.  To Hindu nationalists, he is the …
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 …
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… of the Black Death, men were particularly vulnerable to the plague bacillus and died at a much higher rate. So there … of the population, was eliminated because of the bubonic plague striking in the 1340s. But even worse, it kept on … very stressed out about society. And they interpreted the plague as God is angry at us for not being good enough …
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
… record at 3,695 miles.  The flight, however, seemed plagued with bad luck.  Raskova developed appendicitis, …
 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)
… would seem that the historiography of Mormonism has been plagued by too much emotion, too much description and too …
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 …