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penguin standing on sand at a beach with a plant and ocean behind it

Early Encounters with Penguins

… actually have longer-term relationships with the birds as food, as fuel, but also as diversion and entertainment. And … longer than penguins. But penguins were a staple source of food for Southern seafaring people. Whether that is Arctic … becomes a place where penguins are slaughtered, not just as food for the people who are the whaling crews who are based …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… mosquitoes, cannot transmit it, toilet seats, or by sharing food or drink. Following HIV infection, we know that HIV … was groups like ACT UP really put a lot of pressure on the Food and Drug Administration, to cause them to think …
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.

The Marshall Plan

… state, exacerbated by harsh winters and dismal supply of food and fuel.  Officials soon realized that loans from …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… kind of energy transition? And so I leave that as a little food for thought when we think about what were the costs, … ethanol industry has been more explicitly tied to food, rising food prices, and other things that the sugar-based ethanol …
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.

Native Americans in Urban Places

Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… ran advertisements seeking runaway Indian slaves. Native food vendors participated in the “French Market” of New …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… when people live in places where climate supports abundant food production and that we, we shouldn't be surprised. Just … the absence of water, drought, and the inability to produce food will be huge, huge, huge, huge issues. Dr. Robin Judd  … tried patchwork quilt, like lots of metaphors. I prefer the food ones. But you know, the the idea is that like you help …
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.

Russia’s Trial by Fire

Review of Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War 1914-1921, by Laura Engelstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017