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Where’s that Sexy History Under There?	Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood	All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism	There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies	Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?	Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors	Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
After Midnight	A Woman Scorned?	Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses
The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony	From Sea to Shining Sea	Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
Capturing a Moment	Is It Only A Game?	A Suit, or a Statement?
A Short History of Celebrity	The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC	The Anatomy Murders
Famine: A Short History	Taking it on the Chin	Invisible Man
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking	Movement North	A Day in a Medieval City
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe	Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature	The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
Shakespeare For All Time	A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi	Black Canadians and Pandemics
Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation	Süleyman the Magnificent	Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza	What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care	Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the Covid Era
Work and Life after COVID-19	Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective	Early American Contagions
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19	The Justinianic Plague	The Black Death and its Aftermath
The Respirator and Cloth Mask	April 2020: “No News Day” at the BBC	Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films	A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana	A Postcard from Leith, Scotland
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea	At the Movies: Downton Abbey	From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
The Hamilton-Burr Duel	The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey	"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation
At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots	Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse	Una Postal de Oaxaca, México
Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation	January 2019: A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly	A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico
December 2018: Alexander Solzhenitsyn	October 2018: Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast	Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

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