Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College and the author of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.
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Robert Zaretsky
A black and white photograph captures a somber gathering of people outdoors. In the center, a man in a military uniform and a peaked cap looks down while holding and reading from a small piece of paper. He wears a dark patch over his left eye.
An attendee wave a flag prior to a rally of the French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party candidate in Perpignan ahead of France's municipal elections in Perpignan, southern France, on February 28, 2026.
In black and white, a crowd of protestors and workers ride along an urban street in tractors and cars. The vast crowd reaches and disappears into the top left of the frame down the long street surrounded by trees on either side. In the near foreground a man riding in the front carriage of a car holds a tall sign that reads (in French): Ah ! Mansholt. You tell us that milk is too expensive but you benefit from third countries which produce the expensive margarine.
French presidential election candidate for the far-right then-National Front party Marine Le Pen delivers a speech in Hénin-Beaumont, France, on April 23, 2017.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was a group of volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War as soldiers, technicians, medical personnel and aviators fighting for Spanish Republican forces as part of the International Brigade.
French President Emmanuel Macron applauds France's Thibaut Pinot winning on the finish line of the fourteenth stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Tarbes and Tourmalet Bareges, in Tourmalet Bareges on July 20, 2019.
