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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Peter L. Twohig

Peter L. Twohig is the incoming co-editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the Hist­ory of the Atlantic Region. He lives in Halifax.

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Peter L. Twohig

Localized Pain

Ghosts of a pandemic past May 2021
When the historian Alfred Crosby’s seminal 1976 book, Epidemic and Peace, 1918, was republished in 1989, it was given a catchier title: America’s Forgotten Pandemic. While the current pandemic has brought renewed interest in the “Great Influenza,” it was never really forgotten. After all, it circled the globe in successive…