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Rural front lawn with a Trump sign.

Our Urban/Rural Political Divide is Both New — And Decades In The Making

Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.

by Guian McKee via Made By History on October 8, 2021

Donald Trump and Greg Abbott on a stage.

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.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on August 15, 2021

ACT UP protesters take part in an act of civil disobedience near the West Steps of the U.S. Capitol in 2004.

AIDS Disappeared From Public View Without Ending. Will Covid-19 Do the Same?

By thinking of diseases just as medical problems, we allow them to fester in poor communities.

by Dan Royles via Made By History on June 29, 2021

Colorful vaccination graphic

Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 1, 2021

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past diners eating outdoors in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood last month.

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.

by Melanie A. Kiechle via Made By History on April 21, 2021

Paper Products. Powder Rooms. What Past Pandemics Left Behind Forever.

Disease reshapes our lives in surprising ways.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 23, 2021

Vienna’s plague column; the AIDS quilt; Mexico City’s Memorial to Victims of Violence; Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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

The Civil Rights Era was Supposed to Drastically Change America. It Didn’t.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.

by Stefan M. Bradley via Washington Post on December 23, 2020

The Pfizer headquarters sign.

Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.

by Dan Royles via Made By History on December 15, 2020

A gravestone.

Cicely Was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death Has Lessons That Resonate in Today's Pandemic

US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?

by Nicole S. Maskiell via The Conversation on December 2, 2020

Newspaper scraps from the Flu Pandemic of 1918.

We're Celebrating Thanksgiving Amid a Pandemic. Here's How We Did it in 1918 and What Happened Next.

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.

by Grace Hauck via USA Today on November 24, 2020

Illustration of body being loaded on to a cart

Pandemic Syllabus

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.

by David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan via Public Books on July 13, 2020

Why Humanity Will Probably Botch the Next Pandemic, Too

A conversation with Mike Davis about what must be done to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – and all the other monsters still to come.

by Mike Davis, Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on April 30, 2020

Sketch of colonial fur traders and Indigenous people in a canoe.

The Untold Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

by Melissa J. Gismondi via Canadian Geographic on April 30, 2020

Yellow Fever Led Half of Philadelphians to Flee the City. Ten Percent of the Residents Still Died.

Schools closed, handshaking ceased and people wore handkerchiefs over their faces as the virus ravaged what was then the nation’s capital.

by Michael E. Ruane via Washington Post on April 4, 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

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

Keep it Clean: The Surprising 130-Year History of Handwashing

Until the mid-1800s, doctors didn’t bother washing their hands. Then a Hungarian medic made an essential, much-resisted breakthrough.

by Amy Fleming via The Guardian on March 18, 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

How the Senate Paved the Way for Coronavirus Profiteering, and How Congress Could Undo It

Bernie Sanders pushed a measure through the House to require drugs funded by public research funds to be sold at a reasonable cost. The Senate shot it down.

by Ryan Grim, Aída Chávez via The Intercept on March 2, 2020

Newspaper front-page with headline "When Gen. La Grippe Declares War on the U.S.A."

Forgotten Flu

A look back at the so-called “Spanish Flu," how it affected the U.S., and why it’s often overlooked today.

via BackStory on November 30, 2018

The Last of the Iron Lungs

A visit with three of the last polio survivors in the U.S. who still depend on iron lungs.

by Jennings Brown via Gizmodo on November 20, 2017

Why Are You Not Dead Yet?

Life expectancy doubled in the past 150 years. Here’s why.

by Laura Helmuth via Slate on September 5, 2017

Could You Patent the Sun?

Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed.

via Retro Report on December 11, 2016

A woman lies dying of influenza while a girl covers her eyes behind her.

The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia

Stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.

by Howard Markel, J. Alexander Navarro via University Of Michigan Library on September 19, 2016

A child in an iron lung, used to treat polio patients, aided by a nurse, 1940s.

There is No Cure for Polio

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Melissa Jacobs via Digital Public Library of America on April 7, 2016

Children in New York City waiting in line for immunization shots, 1944

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective

The vaccination skepticism of today is rooted in postwar social movements, prompting a new generation of parents and children to question drugs and doctors.

by Elena Conis via Organization Of American Historians on August 1, 2015

Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

The media fueled fears of a parrot-fever pandemic; then the story went into reverse. Illustration by Laurent Cilluffo.

The Spread

Jill Lepore on disease outbreaks of pandemic proportions, media scares, and the parrot-fever panic of 1930.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 25, 2009

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