Yellow fever, malaria, and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical...
Month: June 2020
Genetic information that could help finger the next infectious threat is stored in museums around the world....
The mystery near and around Stonehenge keeps growing. The latest revelation is the discovery of a ring...
Observed each year on July 11, the World Population Day is a unique event. Unlike Teachers’ Day...
Hoover became increasingly worried about communist threats against the United States – and it morphed into all-encompassing...
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive...
A group of 200 middle aged and older white men gathered in Hemming Park armed with baseball...
A number of issues were involved in the Civil War, all inextricably bound to the institution of...
Syrups and electuaries were popular remedies for throat complaints from the 17th century onwards. Here are some...
Medicine had become highly professionalized by the late Middle Ages and was patriarchal, but women like Trotula...
Bias is upheld by legal authority and institutional control and transformed into systems of racial inequality. If...
More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in Tulsa. It is part of this author’s family...
It has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.” Introduction The Tulsa...
The plague’s social and cultural impact has been compared to that of the Black Death that devastated...
The disease killed as much as one third of the population in some areas and devastated the...
The Roman Empire repeatedly faced an uncertain future. Introduction Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of...
In 44 BC, at the celebration of the Lupercalia, Julius Caesar, seated in a gilded chair at...
In the early days of the parcel post, some parents took advantage of the mail in unexpected...
School systems realized that they couldn’t deal with the pandemic on their own. Introduction Much like what...
It’s become clear we can’t rely on EPA to do its job. Which is why the task...
They called their adventure the Women’s Overland Himalayan Expedition. Antonia Deacock, Anne Davies and Eve Sims were three...
How a symbolic climb changed two men. This is the story of one of the tallest volcanoes...
The US has yet to fully undergo a process of truth and reconciliation. As a nation, the...
How ancient emperors used oratory, ceremony, and triumphal architecture to memorialize their fallen enemies. Introduction Damnatio memoriae,...
Many emperors were raised to gods after death, but just as many received the opposite – officially...
The essay writing industry has been around for several decades now. The rise of the internet was...
We can’t reform police until we reckon with their history of enforcing white supremacy. In November 2006,...
The issue that started the 1877 affair was not police brutality and institutional racism but economic inequality....
The use of federal troops in a law enforcement role has a twisted and often anti-working class...
They had sophisticated medical treatments at their fingertips – from preventative hygiene to prosthetics. Introduction The conventional...