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