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International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on March 8 throughout the world. The purpose is to honor women’s achievements throughout history and across nations. Although the beginnings of this celebration occurred among women’s groups over a hundred...

1. At the start of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a maternity hospital was forced to close. As one of the poorest countries in the world, Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world; approximately 900 women die in childbirth...

One lesson we continue to learn with regard to social media is that what was normal yesterday is old-fashioned today, and from where one stands today, it’s hard to picture what will come tomorrow. It’s easy to forget that email and the web have had mainstream...

March 2nd marks Read Across America Day! In honor of the occasion, we asked some of our authors about their favorite reading nooks. Here’s what they had to say… “My favorite relaxing reading “nook” is in my comfy curved outdoor couch on our back deck. I light...

The one-day novel - that is a book which covers the action of just a single day - has caught the attention of British academic Bryony Randall. A lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Randall took a close look at the topic in a recent...

Historians have overlooked the way black veterans of the greatest generation recalled their service during World War II. I argue the problem is that historians are too preoccupied with finding the origins of the civil rights movement in the wartime experiences...

Prior to the Civil War, laws and court rulings aimed at keeping nearly four million African Americans enslaved jeopardized civil rights for free blacks. Whether born into freedom or legally granted freedom from enslavement, the existence of slavery was a...

Discussions about death and dying today tend to focus on do not resuscitate orders and withholding or withdrawing life support technologies. My book takes a very different approach. After reading 105 memoirs by family members of people who died from chronic...

With numerous ongoing conflicts and disasters occurring around the world, the work of surgical humanitarians is never ending. To understand the context and prepare to provide surgical care under such conditions, it is essential to know the following: Learn how...

Nat Turner realized at some point during his nine weeks and four days in hiding that what he might say if taken alive would be interesting to the public. In August of 1831, he had led the bloody uprising by forty identifiable slaves in Southampton County...