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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.
… On its centennial anniversary, it is worth remembering the history of the “Spanish” flu and how it set us on the path …

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now

… the word “sex” included. In one of the many ironies of ERA history, the Civil Rights Act designed to obviate the need … the ERA help eradicate these gendered norms? Maybe not, but history suggests that it is hard to attain equality in the …
Count Gaston aboard his Jeantaud electric, 1899.

The Jeantaud Electric Car Land Speed Record

… automobile land speed record is set;” https://automotivehistory.org/first-automobile-land-speed-record/ Ernest H. Wakefield,  History of the Electric Automobile  (SAE International, … 2004). Paul Ingrassia,  Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars  (New York: …

European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?

… to collective security recognized that Europe’s more recent history had been dominated by an ongoing contest for the … accompanied this transformative moment in European history. While skeptics have used the financial crises of …
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

The Man Who Re-Invented China

Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… for arguably the greatest revolutionary change in Chinese history (347). Making use of Chinese-language biographies, …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… of Spanish colonialism are very present reminders of Cuba’s history. Havana’s Catholic churches are both symbols and … is beautiful—a combination of cultures with a complicated history and resilient people. Now that U.S. citizens have …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… Spanish ethnographic research project). Throughout most of history, human populations have lived in an unvaccinated …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… challenges such as war and disease. Looking back on the history of U.S. cooperation with organizations such as the … Marcos Cueto and his co-authors argued in their recent history of the WHO—helped justify American participation in …
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.

The Nuremberg Judgment

… from Lawrence proclaiming that the trial was “unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world” and “of supreme …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… in the Balkans and Afghanistan . Yet looking at the history of NATO shows that since its origins in 1949 the … Poroshenko, and the subsequent Russian annexation of the  Crimean peninsula  and the outbreak of violence between …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… 2025 Jan–. PMID: 30085544.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519002/ . Bourdain, Anthony.  Typhoid Mary: An …