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Two women in masks in 1918

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
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An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique

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.
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“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

Review of The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe, by Mi Gyung Kim (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
… in Revolutionary Europe , the balloon became the national artifact of late eighteenth-century France , …
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

… created jobs for the unemployed, while others, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act's industrial policy, helped …
President Richard Nixon

Republican Character

Review of Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan, by Donald T. Critchlow (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
… poor electoral timing led to consistent shortcomings on the national stage. Critchlow compares Nixon and Rockefeller in …
Cover of The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein

There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies

Review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014)
… the political arena—all the more at a low-point in American national confidence. So despite all the malaise of the … finds that old-time religion just in time to run for national office. And the burgeoning conservative movement …
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel

12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars

… and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To … the Anglo-French relationship, and, ultimately, on international relations in the twentieth century, was grim and … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… protectorate of Norway in 1261 CE. Following the personal union of Norway and Denmark in 1380, power shifted south to … Land.” The dispute went to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which decreed in 1933 that Denmark had … were recognized as a distinct people under international law.  In 2012, Greenlandic became the sole official …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… It also set the stage for the rise of stronger national identities and ultimately for the Reformation that … the 1721 plague outbreak in Marseille. As with the rise of national universities, the building of quarantine structures … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …
Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.

Why Piracy Remains a Threat

… The anti-militarism of the 1780s gave way to a more nationalistic spirit, but as a concession to older attitudes … really state-sanctioned privateers whose profits went into national treasuries. Because Somalian pirates are not …
Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

… in 1923, with its aggressive focus on secular Turkish nationalism. The Armenians, meanwhile, have long called for … the complexities of the label genocide in history and international law. So stay tuned.   Dr. Ronald Grigor Suny   I'm … Convention from 2006". And I've been involved in some international litigation in relation to genocide.   Leticia …
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport

… modernity, an effort that also included live international coverage via  short-wave radio broadcasts.   In an … and Notre Dame, which has always thought of its fan base as national rather than regional.   College Sports on the Small … the war fielding lucrative competing offers from multiple national networks as well as local channels in Chicago.   …
Captured soldiers along the march with their hands tied behind their backs

The Bataan Death March

… at the outset of the Bataan Death March. (Photo from National Guard) The troops immediately went on half rations; … march with their hands tied behind their backs. (Photo from National Archives) Japanese cultural attitudes made matters … carry comrades too weak to walk along the road. (Photo from National Archives) The news of the “Death March” eventually …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… in Toronto, which was then one of several cities internationally caught in the grip of a frightening new … three levels of prevention were used: first, an international surveillance system at the global level; second, a … of a growing movement of vaccine refusal? In the European Union, some accused the WHO of declaring a pandemic to line …
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.

Islamic Imperialism: A History

Review of Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006)
… Nasser skillfully blended the competing demands of Egyptian nationalism and pan-Arabism. Egypt was portrayed as the … of the United Arab Republic in 1958, a nominal political union between Egypt and Syria, was Nasser's high-water mark. …
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Famine: A Short History

Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… for famine relief, including Venezuela in 1912, the Soviet Union in 1921, and Western Europe after World War II, though … of nutrition and medicine, the growing number of international famine relief organizations, falling food storage … Global/Transnational