A Complete History of Pandemics

Click Here to Read: A Complete History of Pandemics: Renowned scientist and best-selling author Vaclav Smil offers a sweeping look at pandemics that ravaged the world on the MIT Press website on March 30, 2020.
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Image: National Photo Company.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France

Click Here to Read: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France. Two killings in Paris, one year apart, have inflamed the bitter French debate over antisemitism, race and religion  By James McAuley on the Guardian website on November 27, 2019.
French people, and perhaps some tourists, waiting for a stoplight near the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France, in November 2007. Image: George Garrigues.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.