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The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… Leith also became the entrance for substances that would plague Scotland to this day. The first recorded opioids in …
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… and forget the massacres and ethnic cleansing that have plagued Bosnia, Kosovo or Iraq in recent years. Moreover, by …
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… in Albania.  One detrimental factor that continued to plague Albanian politics was the lingering presence of …
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall

Modern China and Its Institutions

Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… and uncritical truisms of Chinese history, which sometimes plagues other historical works on the country. Deng Xiaoping …
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover

Playing Politics with Our Children's Health

Review of School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008)
… in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, a central problem that had plagued school lunch programs since the early twentieth …

The Year of Africa

… exploitation of Congolese resources by Western powers plagued and plague the nation to this day. This copper mine in the …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… in that in the you know, the movie, how does it survive a plague tells a lot of that story and in a great way with and … of that. The film that Dodie mentioned, "How to Survive a Plague" ends around 1995, what had changed by 1995, with the …