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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
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Epidemic Proportions

How Americans have understood epidemics, from the Columbian Exchange to COVID-19.
Sign noting that spitting spreads the Spanish flu.

Trapped on a Ship During a Pandemic

“Either they’ve got no conscience, or they’re not awake to the gravity of the situation.”
by Willa Cather via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 31, 2020
The Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

An American Outbreak of Death and Panic

On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.
by Alexandra Coria via Medium on March 30, 2020

How Some Cities ‘Flattened the Curve’ During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic.
by Nina Strochlic, Riley D. Champine via National Geographic on March 27, 2020
Trump speech script with "Corona" crossed out and changed to "Chinese" Virus.
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Stop Calling Covid-19 a Foreign Virus

Medical xenophobia has dangerous ramifications.
by Mark A. Goldberg via Made By History on March 26, 2020

The Untold Origin Story of the N95 Mask

The most important design object of our time was more than a century in the making.
by Mark R. Wilson via Fast Company on March 24, 2020

How One Federal Agency Took Care of Its Workers During the Yellow Fever Pandemic in the 1790s

Today's coronavirus pandemic has echoes in the yellow fever pandemic of the 1790s. Then, workers struggled with how to support themselves and their families.
by Julia Mansfield via The Conversation on March 23, 2020

The Epidemics America Got Wrong

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.
by Jim Downs via The Atlantic on March 22, 2020
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Coronavirus: Lessons From Past Epidemics

Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.
via Retro Report on March 20, 2020

The 5 WWII Lessons That Could Help the Government Fight Coronavirus

Eighty years ago, U.S. industry mobilized in a big way during a crisis. We could do it again.
by Mark R. Wilson via Politico Magazine on March 19, 2020

‘A Once-in-a-Century Pathogen’: The 1918 Pandemic & This One

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.
by Mark Honigsbaum via New York Review of Books on March 17, 2020
Minskoff Theatre entrance.

Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague

The qualities for which live theater is celebrated—audiences responding with laughter, tears, gasps, and coughs—accelerate its danger.
by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner via The Atlantic on March 14, 2020

History in a Crisis - Lessons for Covid-19

The history of epidemics offers considerable advice, but only if people know the history and respond with wisdom.
by David S. Jones via The New England Journal Of Medicine on March 12, 2020

The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease

Over the centuries, societies have shown a long history of making the effects of epidemics worse and furthering their own destruction.
by Elise A. Mitchell via The Atlantic on March 11, 2020

The Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic

The differences between the global response to the Great Flu Pandemic and today’s COVID-19 outbreak could not be more striking.
by Jeremy Brown via The Atlantic on March 3, 2020

“Kiss Via Kerchief”: Influenza Warnings in 1918

If kissing was deemed necessary during the flu pandemic, a handkerchief should be used to prevent direct contact with the lips.
by E. Thomas Ewing via Nursing Clio on February 12, 2020

How New York City Found Clean Water

For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.
by Jonathan Schifman via Smithsonian on November 25, 2019

The 1918 Parade That Spread Death in Philadelphia

In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on November 9, 2019

Zombie Flu: How the 1919 Influenza Pandemic Fueled the Rise of the Living Dead

Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?
by Elizabeth Outka via The Conversation on October 28, 2019

Herd Immunity

Can the social contract be protected from a measles outbreak?
by Ann Neumann via The Baffler on October 7, 2019

Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards

A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children.
by Alexander B. Joy via The Atlantic on July 28, 2019

Wearing The Lead Glasses

Lead contamination in New Orleans and beyond.
by Thomas Beller via Places Journal on May 31, 2019

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More. From the book "Black Death at the Golden Gate".
by David K. Randall via Literary Hub on May 9, 2019
A fanciful, seventeenth-century depiction of the fall of Tenochtitlan, with clashing armies.

Did Colonialism Cause Global Cooling? Revisiting an Old Controversy

However the Little Ice Age came to be, we now know that climatic cooling had profound consequences for contemporary societies.
by Dagomar Degroot via Historical Climatology on February 22, 2019

Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America

Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793, touching nearly everyone in the city.
by Ashley Bowen via U.S. National Library of Medicine on December 12, 2018

How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."
by Leah Donnella via NPR on October 31, 2018

Colonialism Did Not Just Create Slavery: It Changed Geology

Researchers suggest effects of the Colonial Era can be detected in rocks or even air.
by Robin McKie via The Guardian on June 10, 2018
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