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The famous Little Italy sign in San Diego California

The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

A plaque honors the men and women of the tuna industry who helped build San Diego’s Little Italy.

The original sarcophagus at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a temporary, emergency structure built to contain radioactive materials after the 1986 disaster

Caricature of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wearing a dark suit and two medals. As a Communist party official and chairman of the Presidium, he dominated the government between 1964 and his death in 1982, implementing his beliefs that military and…

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and…

Photograph from article "The Legacy of Prohibition on Wine 80 Years Later" that talks about Carla de Luca's documentary

From Carla de Luca’s article Immigrants, Wine and the Spirit of America: Sun-lit barrel room in California from “America’s Wine: The legacy of Prohibition”, Courtesy The Bancroft Library

Image of California’s diverse wine-growing regions, found on Wine Institue's official website

It takes 85 to 90 pounds of grapes to make five gallons of wine; some families brew up to 200 gallons each year. Courtesy of the Mancini family.