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Poverty as a Plague: Sharecropping, Pellagra, and Institutional Neglect

Jun 30, 2026

Poverty as a Plague: Sharecropping, Pellagra, and Institutional Neglect

How the post-Civil War South created a disease, and spent decades covering it up.

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How Big Tobacco Bought the Silence of the American Press

Jun 10, 2026

How Big Tobacco Bought the Silence of the American Press

Secret memos reveal how the tobacco industry paid journalists, buried health reports, and turned American magazines into a PR machine — and why it still matters.

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