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Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing

Bombing Hiroshima

… Hiroshima is an exquisite, complicated city known for its food, the stunning natural beauty of its bay, and an …
15th century painting of Christine de Pisan, QUeen Isabeau, and 7 other women

Medieval Women's Rights: Setting the Stage for Today

… and celebrity by miraculously subsisting on odd and unusual foods. Carolyn White Walker Barnum has documented 45 … a saint when she started giving away all of her husband's food. If anything, I think these women can remind us that …
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.

Taking it on the Chin

Review of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
… popularity and deliberate retreat as it began to recede are food for thought in a celebrity-obsessed culture. The Blue …
Statue and Ukrainian Flag

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… not have any activity whatsoever. You need to bring in food. You need to bring in the element of all the elementary … 400 million people worldwide. It is crucial to our global food supply chain. Angela Brintlinger: Thank you. Marianna, …
An abandoned building in Chernobyl

A Postcard from Chernobyl

… differing perspectives: Kate Brown, “Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl,” Origins: Current Events in Historical … Perspective , April 2016 /milestones/april-2016-eating-you-food-and-chernobyl Jim Green, “Chernobyl - how many died?” …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… different kinds of throat, stomach cancers, water scarcity, food safety issues, and so forth. For example, according to …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… media like smartphones or pornography or even kinds of food to exploit the public. And I think it's very important …