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Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Review of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010)
… and Richard Pipes, which seek to find precedence for Soviet crimes in Lenin's early behavior, Rappaport's study …
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it

Diet for a Large Planet

… the British diet has often been the subject of international ridicule, the system that sustained it has been … We'll see you next time. … Nicholas Breyfogle … Global/Transnational … Food & Agriculture … Public Health, Disease, and …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… hoped they would help rehabilitate their country in international eyes after the horrors of Nazism, and nothing … hostage crisis reverberated. The massacre was met with international horror. Global news coverage of the violent attack … Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993– Book by Yezid Sayigh Bergman, …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… virus, which was successfully administered to millions of Soviet children in 1959. Sabin’s vaccine was then widely … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Top Tens … Top Ten Origins: Vaccination …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… the heavens… … Benjamin Breen … Milestones … Diplomacy/International Relations … Global/Transnational … Colonialism/Imperialism … Central Asia … A …
The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire, England

Top Ten Origins: Housing the Poor

… st century. … Aaron Cavin … Top Ten Origins … Global/Transnational … Cities/Urban & Rural … Class & Labor … Top Tens … …
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944

The Liberation of Paris

… fact, an attempt to manufacture unity and restore national pride. The reality of living in an occupied city …

Hong Kong in Protest

… The civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and their nationalist rivals forced over a million Chinese to migrate …
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).

Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood

… greatest Indian film ever made, it received unmatched international recognition and ushered in a new cinema movement. … Court defied all expectations, becoming the most internationally decorated Indian film with as many as 19 awards … To Let won the best Tamil film award at the 65th Indian national film awards. 10. Village Rockstars (Assamese, 2018) …
A Nuclear Power Plant in the Untied Kingdom against a blue sky.

How Green Is the Atom?

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States
… The work for this essay was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Contract 2020024) and HoNESt …
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"

Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice

… many of which were US funded, but which were supported by national governments in various parts of Asia, Africa and … & Reproductive Rights … Women & Gender … Global/Transnational … Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice …
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it

The Long History of #MeToo

… of women running for all sorts of positions, local, state, national, in 2018. And I think that that's a movement that …