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… remains a threat in much of the world. The seventh and most recent pandemic (of the “El Tor” strain of cholera) … the “miasmatists” (sometimes called “anti-contagionists”) posited that environmental hazards like “bad air” ( mal aria … the poor’s living conditions. In Great Britain, Poor Law Commissioner Edwin Chadwick, from the miasma school, began …

… The Not-So-Hidden Hands of the “West”: Boris Efimov The most prolific propagandist in this visual warfare was Boris … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder … people wanted it to be that way, that we should be the opposite of the West. It just happened that way. I should say …

… Joseph Roisman’s  The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of … his subject has been lost in the sea of ink spilled over almost all other aspects of ancient warfare. In order to fill … generals with more obscure ones. Leonidas, the doomed Spartan king who stood at Thermopylae, and Themistocles, …

… Health Organization. The word influenza is derived from the medieval Italian word for “influence” ( influentia ) and … first used the term in English, but “influenza” was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic. 2. … of a series of epidemics and pandemics of what we are almost certain to have been influenza. In spring 1729 an …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the …   New allegations against powerful men seem to emerge almost every day, as more and more women come forward, and … gains this kind of momentum also, because one of the first sites that's really coming forward about sexual misconduct …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … of years old but localized to the Indian subcontinent for most of its history. Then in 1849, Cincinnati’s weekly … English travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) who visited Cincinnati in the 1850s. After Cincinnati’s initial …

… since the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad . After almost six months of vicious street-to-street fighting, … Glory, at Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia. The monument commemorates those who died defending the city 1942-1943. In … The 85-metre Soviet statue The Motherland Calls , sited on a hill that saw some of the fiercest fighting in …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship … to Harold Godwinson, the brother–in-law of Edward and the most prominent nobleman of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, to … Normandy, and Harald Hardarda, King of Norway, however, immediately challenged the new king. William hinted that …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State … on a diet rich in meat and so on was bad for the Earth. Most of studies of the food crisis limit their studies from … itself from within. This author who argued for js this posited that it was the cause of every disease to man. …

… Host Patrick Potyondy interviews her about one of the most contentious topics today— abortion —as well as her … Europe where abortion is illegal in if I'm correct, almost all circumstances. This, the reason I hesitate with … State University. And I encourage you to go look at that website to find out many great articles about history, …

… On August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … him each year as we take our vacations in the month named after him (only he and Julius Caesar share that honor). …

… have persisted for nearly two thousand years.  Perhaps most urgently, did Emperor Nero, regent at the time, … fire have long been questioned and debated, the academic community generally blames poor circumstances for Rome’s … imagination.  Tacitus, ever the skeptic in comparison, posited a different conclusion. In the absence of evidence to …

… for new  popes  always so politically fraught? And most pressingly, where do they shop for those amazing … The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third …

… human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … trading centers and colonial outposts. Two towns on opposite sides of the Congo River, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) … United States and the Soviet Union. The Congo provides the most striking example of this in the 1960s. Patrice Lumumba …

… and its outlying regions. The Terra Cotta Warriors: Xi’an’s most famous attraction. If the name “Xi’an” is familiar to … the inner city. A Tang hot springs palace outside the city, site of one of China’s most famous love stories, serves as a … it’s a Daoist mountain to the east, a Buddhist reliquary complex to the west, or the tomb-speckled hillside to the …

… (which Traina admits). Traina begins his story with the most important geopolitical event of the year: the Persian … sphere of influence. In this context Flavius Dionysius, commander of Rome's eastern military forces and a native of … Once he had returned from his diplomatic mission, he was entrusted with escorting the Syrian monk Nestorius to …

… we like to take a moment to highlight fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much … over 200 episodes on the history of some of the city’s most iconic places, people, and events. Among the subjects … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… and technological discoveries, and the agricultural and medical practices that have kept humans alive and thriving … that past human experience provide for solving today’s most urgent global problems of food, population, disease, medicine, and technology. … Food Crisis EDITOR’S NOTE: By CHRIS OTTER It is one of the most striking paradoxes of our time. In June 2009, the …

… A common response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide has been … workplaces, nursing homes , and other places. But, as with most seemingly novel practices, this one has a long and … were not made exempt from further scrutiny. Just the opposite: they actually shouldered additional burdens of …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … has either denied the existence of the virus entirely or framed it as an intentional product—has proliferated at an alarming rate. It has also enjoyed the most mainstream attention of any conspiracy theory since the …

… On its “Milestones in UN History” website, the United Nations features smallpox eradication, … a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … are still working out the details of the family tree, but most agree that measles emerged out of a spillover from …

… have been levelling their ire with deadly consequences at comedians whose work they have deemed to be blasphemous or … numerous others comedians. Saïd Mekbel Perhaps the most well-known and beloved was the editorial writer Saïd … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… behind-the-scenes may have been as important to the outcome of events as the men’s on the battlefield. In Blood … makes good use of the fragmentary sources available to medieval scholars, transitioning smoothly between exposition … assertions are well-supported in the sources since most pages have only one reference and many have none at …