Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
… investigators, speculating that everything from cigarettes, food, Baer aspirin tablets, and strangers with hypodermic …
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Srebrenica and its Memory
In July 1995, in the final days of the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre.
… conditions had deteriorated as few supply convoys carrying food, medicine and fuel were able to reach the enclave. On …
Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections
… anti-trust laws, sought to ban child labor, protected food quality, conserved land and created the Federal Reserve …
The First “First Thanksgiving”
… and Indian had turkey and other game birds as well as sea foods, venison, Indian corn, beans, berries and nuts on …
A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana
… English, and African influences to the architecture, food, and music—all staples of modern New Orleans tourism. …
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections
… painstaking research on the presence of DDT throughout the food chain and the health risks it posed to humans as well …
Written With the Blood of Miners
… room,” a sealed chamber with a cache of oxygen, water and food. ÊRescuers reached them 26 hours later, and every man …
The Bataan Death March
… Filipino, 10,000 American) who fell into their hands. Food, water, medical care, and transportation were in short …
What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations
… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
Learning to Dance With the French
… and corrupt, they claimed; too interested in fancy foods, drinking and gambling ever to govern themselves, too …
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
Review of A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps, by Tim Bryars and Tom Harper (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014)
… frenzied production of consumer goods in the form of fast food restaurants, videogames, and Disney World. However, …
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
… once people began to realize that it had infiltrated the food supply. The tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were … meltdown at Chernobyl. Fear of radioactive contamination of food imported from Europe mobilized many people. The CNIC …
Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo
… The Albanian victims are receiving emergency shelter and food rations, and leaders of several countries, including …
The Nuclear Theft From the Poor and Hungry
… poor have suffered most from this catastrophe. They need food, shelter and medicine, not spending on nuclear weapons. …
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
… ” (allied forces) played a key role, delivering water, food, and ammunition, aiding the wounded, and even taking up …
The Jamestown Project
Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
… poetry, clothing styles, and a growing demand for exotic foods, herbs and spices. Little by little, the English …
Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse
… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
… Industrial robots are used at a bakery for automated food production. Since 2000, U.S. labor wages and benefits …
Will the United States Start a New Nuclear Arms Race?
… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
The Need to Talk with Iran
… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
Nuclear Arms Control – Now, More than Ever
… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
… Terror . As Frankenstein reflects, “dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now a hell …
International Women's Day
… women in Saint Petersburg, exasperated by rising food prices and rapidly deteriorating living conditions, led …
The Munich Olympic Massacre
… included sending police dressed as chefs to deliver food for the hostages in the hope they would be let in; but …
