Eating Animals: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Is it okay to eat some animals?
Category Archives: Global History
Modern slavery, environmental stress, and lingering international imperialism – unwinding the connections between intimately linked problems
There are critical connections between modern slavery, environment and imperialism.
Stewart Brand and the Nuclear Renaissance that Should Not Be
By Lisa Rumiel Note: Again, the author would like to thank Linda Richards for her helpful comments and suggestions in preparing this article. It is time to stop claiming that a nuclear renaissance is the solution to the current environmental crisis. I’m talking to you, Stewart Brand. A sort of Nostradamus of technological and environmental thought, Brand is one of… Read more »
From Fukushima to Chernobyl: Bringing the Past to Bear on the Future
A historian’s reflections on the long-term consequences of the world’s four major nuclear energy disasters.
Book Review: Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Teresa Iacobelli presents a thoughtful review of Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout.
Historians and Global Warming
As part of a small but growing number of environmental historians exploring the relationship between climatic changes and human affairs, Dagomar Degroot discusses how he is drawn into modern debates about global warming whether he likes it or not.
Forced Marriage: An under recognized, poorly understood form of enslavement
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, Karlee Sapoznik looks at past and present aspects of forced marriage.
Announcing the Mississauga Library System Speakers’ Series
In this post, we announce an upcoming speakers’ series in March, April, and May 2011 at the Mississauga Library System.
Slavery Affects 27 Million Lives Today: Legal Abolition vs. Effective Emancipation
An analysis of slavery past and present from the Alliance Against Modern Slavery.
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Resources for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.