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Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… change is temperature and access and availability of water. And the question of sort of predictability or …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… out there and load their slaving gear just outside British waters. Often the law was evaded by British ships operating …
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c. 1779

The Execution of Louis XVI

… Louis XVI, with the caption “so that the impure blood may water our fields” and a description by Robespierre of the …
Cover of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC by David W. Anthony and  Jennifer Y. Chi.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Review of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC, by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254)
… basic chronology of Old Europe are likely to be uncharted waters for most readers, Anthony's chapter serves as a …
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)—Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Free Speech: Still Under Threat

… cowed (in contrast with the toughness some showed during Watergate), strike deals with the prosecutor rather than …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… 7500 years ago.   Satellite images of Lake Chad show water levels declining rapidly since the 1950s. The African … July to October have failed several times to provide enough water for crops, most notably in 2002, 2011, and 2015.  In …

Trade Wars: The Collapse of America's Free Trade Consensus

… the RTA is often overlooked, yet it constituted a watershed in trade policy. Traditionally, Congress had … as the Grimm Reaper stepping on the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act ( right ). There had …
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

…   Dr. Peter Mansoor    I think 9/11 was clearly the watershed in this regard. After 9/11, the United States had … how it's played out over time. I think the, again, the watershed in this regard is the invasion of Iraq. Until …  Sure.   Dr. Peter Mansoor    But the Iraq war is a real watershed, because that's the first time that we actually do …

The American Dream after COVID-19

… of fisheries, reduced arable land, toxins leaching into waterways, and other human-made and natural disasters. Any … the “apps” available in the early 20 th century: “We want water and we turn a faucet. We want a kodak-picture and we …