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Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
Soon after SARS was discovered, labs around the world shared information in search of a cure.
Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion
Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… on visions, solutions, and resolutions, for the future of national life. Through the three sections of her book, Sands …
The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
In the late 1820s, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced the poinsettia plant to Americans, who marveled at its foliage.
… y Caribeña (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella, National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … Regele … United States … Mexico … Diplomacy/International Relations … U.S. Politics … South & Central America …
Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military
… armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.” And the policy was to be “put into effect …
Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?
… You think that Americans’ national pastime is baseball, football, or Nascar? You’re …
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
Germ theory helped to usher in the widespread use of cloth masks.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Germ theory …
Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors
Review of The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865, by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014)
When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right
… rights organizations, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued that current textbooks, …
The Perils of Breaking Away
… in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent … independence provided the impetus for creating a new international consensus for handling separatist conflicts. Today, the international community is supposed to respect existing states’ …
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
HIV and COVID-19 have both laid bare that stark racial disparities exist in population health and in access to quality medical care in the US.
… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … HIV and … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … International Organizations … What HIV Teaches …
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
After a devasting fire in Rome in 64 CE, Emperor Nero successfully rebuilt the city.
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
When it was over, the populations of Europe, China, and India were cut by a third to a half.
