Library of History, Volume IX

Recent News

• In the New York Times, When Children Feel Pain coauthor Rachel Rabkin Peachman called for action to combat chronic racial inequities in pediatric medical care—especially in pain management.
• Joshua Zimmerman discussed Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland with Radio Poland’s Q&A (in English) and on the podcast History Hack.
• Alessio Terzi, author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe, argued at LSE Business Review that there’s nothing anti-capitalist about a shorter workweek; today’s conversations about a three-day weekend are not a shift in paradigm but rather a continuation of the paradigm we have seen for over two centuries.