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This Week in People’s History, May 21–27, 2025

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Act Up demonstrators on the National Institutes of Health campus in May 1990
Act Up Against Bad Science (1990), Don’t Talk, Take Action! (1980), Racism Debunked, But for How Long? (1950), Speak Up, Memory! (2025), Protest and Serve (2020), National Institute of Health, R.I.P? (1930), Really Making Peru Great Again (1975)

The Fog of War

Dennis Normile Science
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, researchers are still struggling to document the long-term health effects of the massive spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides

One Brief Shining Moment

Adam Hochschild The New York Review of Books
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.