Time

The Half-Century: The View from 1900

Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was ...
Time

The Half-Century: The View from 1950

Nothing—literally nothing—had been left untouched by 50 years of progress. New York on Jan. 1, 1900 had been innocently delighted with the snowflakes (the kind “that wear well”); but by the Christmas ...
The Atlantic

A Half-Century of Conflict

DR. PARK MAN’S Half-Century of Conflict 1 fills the gap between Count Frontenac and Montcalm and Wolfe; the period being the first half of the last century. It is not difficult to understand why the ...
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Half a Century of a Right to Health?

Jacqueline Bhabha is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for ...