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Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

by Francis Wilkinson via Bloomberg on May 3, 2020

The Oakland Municipal Auditorium set up as a hospital, with Red Cross nurses tending to flu patients, 1918.

The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

A new book suggests that the plague’s horrors haunt modernist literature between the lines.

by Rebecca Onion, Elizabeth Outka via Slate on May 3, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.

by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.

by Mark Ashwill via CounterPunch on April 30, 2020

COVID-19 in History

Living through a momentus time has prompted many reflections on what the past has to teach us about why the pandemic took the shape that it did – and how we can better respond to it.

The Sting of ‘Thank You for Your Service’

The benefits that come with serving the country have withered in recent decades.

by John Worsencroft via Made By History on April 29, 2020

A woman videochats on her phone

During Epidemics, Media (And Now Social Media) Have Always Helped People to Connect

In a devastating 1793 epidemic people transformed their newspaper into something like today’s social media.

by David Paul Nord via Made By History on April 27, 2020

Typhoid Mary Was a Maligned Immigrant Who Got a Bum Rap

Now, she's become hashtag shorthand for people who defy social distancing orders.

by Katherine A. Foss via The Conversation on April 24, 2020

Nurses tend to patients in a field hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic.

Medicare for All in the Age of Coronavirus

A history of U.S. health care debates.

by Nancy Tomes via Perspectives on History on April 24, 2020

Public Health Isn’t The Enemy of Economic Well-Being

As 19th century reformers showed, only a healthy workforce can fuel economic prosperity.

by Melanie A. Kiechle via Made By History on April 24, 2020

Donald Trump seen through a window reflecting a fence.

President Trump’s Immigration Suspension Has Nothing to Do With Coronavirus

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

by Carly Goodman via Made By History on April 22, 2020

Smithfield factory distribution center.

As Our Meat, Pork and Poultry Supply Dwindles, We Should Remember Why

While worrying about our food supply, we must also worry about workers producing it.

by Anya Jabour via Made By History on April 21, 2020

Death Can’t Take the Stories Our Elders Pass On

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

by Nelson George via Medium on April 21, 2020

Nurses on strike.

We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.

COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.

by Lane Windham via HNN on April 19, 2020

If You Think Quarantine Life Is Weird Today, Try Living It in 1918

From atomizer crazes to stranded actor troupes to school by phone, daily life during the flu pandemic was a trip.

by Michael Waters via Slate on April 17, 2020

A mug shot of Linda Taylor

COVID-19 and Welfare Queens

Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via Boston Review on April 17, 2020

Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century New York

As COVID-19 races through New York, we asked Lorna Ebner to tell us about previous attempts to mitigate disease in the city.

by Lorna Ebner via Books, Health and History on April 14, 2020

Trump at a press conference.

Covid-19 Needs Federal Leadership, Not Authoritarianism from Trump

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

by Grace Mallon via Made By History on April 14, 2020

Nurse Minnie Sun holding a baby in the Chinese Hospital

When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.

by Laureen Hom, Claire Wang via Atlas Obscura on April 13, 2020

“Victory Gardens” Are Back in Vogue. But What Are We Fighting This Time?

“Growing your own vegetables is great; beating Nazis is great. I think we’re all nostalgic for a time when anything was that simple.”

by Anastasia Day, Rebecca Onion via Slate on April 11, 2020

Mike Pence in a warehouse.

CEOs Email You Heartfelt Coronavirus Messages, While Still Prioritizing the Bottom Line

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

by Andrew Lynn via Made By History on April 9, 2020

Women wearing masks during the 1918 Flu.

To Save Lives, Social Distancing Must Continue Longer Than We Expect

The lessons of the 1918 flu pandemic.

by Howard Markel, J. Alexander Navarro via Made By History on April 8, 2020

Don’t Look For Patient Zeros

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on April 8, 2020

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.

by Melanie A. Kiechle, Daniela Blei via Atlas Obscura on April 8, 2020

Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies

New York City is considering burying victims of Covid-19 in public parks, many of which were already built on top of burial grounds.

by Eleanor Cummins via Vice on April 6, 2020

America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology

In the 1790s a plague struck the new American nation and killed thousands. Noah Webster told the story of pandemics and invented a field.

by Joshua Kendall via TIME on April 4, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.

by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020

In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu.

by Soraya Nadia McDonald via Andscape on April 1, 2020

How Epidemics Shaped Modern Life

Past public health crises inspired innovations in infrastructure, education, fundraising and civic debate—and cleaned up animal carcasses from the streets.

by Katherine A. Foss via Zócalo Public Square on April 1, 2020

How America’s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

by Walter Shapiro via The New Republic on March 31, 2020

The History of Smallpox Shows Us Nationalism Can’t Beat a Pandemic

“America First” is a fairly useless strategy in the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine.

by Charles Kenny via Slate on March 31, 2020

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