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The Doctor and the Confederate
A historian’s journey into the relationship between Alexander Darnes and Edmund Kirby Smith starts with a surprising eulogy.
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
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Smithsonian
on
January 10, 2023
1918 Flu Pandemic Upended Long-standing Social Inequalities – At Least for a Time
The first flu children encounter shapes their immune systems. This had a surprising effect on Black and white mortality rates in 1918.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Martin Eiermann
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The Conversation
on
December 16, 2022
Searching for Lutiant: An American Indian Nurse Navigates a Pandemic
A 1918 letter sent a historian diving into the archives to learn more about its author.
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Brenda J. Child
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Perspectives on History
on
November 21, 2022
Contest or Conquest?
How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?
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Daniel Immerwahr
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Harper’s
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October 11, 2022
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Epidemic Proportions
How Americans have understood epidemics, from the Columbian Exchange to COVID-19.
Treating the (Last) Pandemic
Heroin, Aspirin, and The Spanish Flu.
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Jessica Cale
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Dirty Sexy History
on
September 26, 2022
Panic at the Library
The sinister history of fumigating “foreign” books.
by
Brian Michael Murphy
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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August 24, 2022
Why the School Wars Still Rage
From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
March 10, 2022
partner
New York Survived the 1832 Cholera Epidemic
As cholera swept through New York, people tried their best to survive.
by
Daniel S. Levy
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HNN
on
February 13, 2022
Whack-a-Mole
Vaccine skepticism and misinformation have persisted since the smallpox epidemics. With the internet, it's only gotten worse.
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Rivka Galchen
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London Review of Books
on
January 27, 2022
The Pandemic Has Given Us a Bad Case of Narrative Vertigo; Literature Can Help
In the work of writers like W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, we can find new ways to tell our own stories.
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Elizabeth Outka
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Washington Post
on
January 25, 2022
partner
Bureaucracy Under Fire: How the Supreme Court Has Jeopardized the OSHA Vaccine Mandate
Corporate deregulation has long curtailed OSHA’s power to safeguard workers.
by
Alexander Ian Parry
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Made By History
on
January 7, 2022
This Teen’s AIDS Diagnosis Changed History
Ryan White’s story both reinforced and challenged assumptions about the disease.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Teen Vogue
on
December 6, 2021
How to Tell the Thanksgiving Story on Its 400th Anniversary
Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.
by
David Kindy
via
Smithsonian
on
November 23, 2021
Have Crisis, Feed Kids
How a series of emergencies resulted in the school lunch programs we have today.
by
A. R. Ruis
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Nursing Clio
on
November 4, 2021
This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.
by
Dana Hedgpeth
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Retropolis
on
November 4, 2021
How Transatlantic Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today
Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.
by
Jim Downs
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TIME
on
September 2, 2021
partner
The GOP is Reviving the Old History of Blaming Outsiders for Disease
But the evidence never backed it up before, and it doesn’t support such claims today either.
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Jonathan Zimmerman
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Made By History
on
August 15, 2021
How the Bush Administration Did More For AIDS in Africa Than At Home
Emily Bass on foreign aid and America's response to long-standing pandemics.
by
Emily Bass
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Literary Hub
on
July 8, 2021
partner
Revisiting a 19th Century Medical Idea Could Help Address Covid-19
When germ theory displaced the idea of "miasmas" we lost important knowledge about tackling airborne disease.
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Melanie A. Kiechle
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Made By History
on
April 21, 2021
The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America
Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.
by
Howard Markel
via
The New Yorker
on
April 12, 2021
Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis
The former first lady fought the conservative Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic.
by
Karen Tumulty
via
The Atlantic
on
April 12, 2021
How Will We Remember This?
A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.
by
Justin Davidson
via
Curbed
on
March 15, 2021
Pranksters and Puritans
Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.
by
Christopher Benfey
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New York Review of Books
on
February 15, 2021
History Shows Americans Have Always Been Wary of Vaccines
Even so, many diseases have been tamed. Will Covid-19 be next?
by
Alicia Ault
via
Smithsonian
on
January 26, 2021
‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: A Visual History of Mutual Aid
Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
by
Ariel Aberg-Riger
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CityLab
on
December 22, 2020
Shakespeare’s Contentious Conversation With America
James Shapiro’s recent book looks at why Shakespeare has been a mainstay of the cultural and political conflicts of the country since its founding.
by
Alisa Solomon
via
The Nation
on
December 17, 2020
New Orleans: Vanishing Graves
Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials.
by
Charlie Lee
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The American Scholar
on
December 7, 2020
The Complicated Legacy of the Pilgrims is Finally Coming to Light After 400 Years
Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.
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Peter C. Mancall
via
The Conversation
on
September 4, 2020
partner
Polio on Trial
What if there is a vaccine, but not everyone gets it? Exploring the lessons of the polio vaccine's shortcomings as we address a new public health crisis today.
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Future Of America's Past
on
August 10, 2020
This "Miserable African": Race, Crime, and Disease in Colonial Boston
The murder that challenged Cotton Mather’s complex views about race, slavery, and Christianity.
by
Mark S. Weiner
via
Commonplace
on
July 13, 2020
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