yellow fever 
-
SOURCE: Smithsonian
4/19/2022
Racism and the 19th Century Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans
by Karin Wulf
Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861.
-
SOURCE: Labor Online
5/18/2020
The Contagion and a Cure
by Mark Lause
Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today.
-
SOURCE: Scientific American
5/14/2020
Why History Urges Caution on Coronavirus Immunity Testing
The idea that people can gain privileged status by proving their immunity to a disease has troubling historical precedents, both in terms of social prejudices and public health outcomes.
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
4/27/2020
During Epidemics, Media (and now Social Media) have Always Helped People to Connect
by David Paul Nord
For several hundred years, people have used media — reading, writing and print — to maintain human contact and community in times of epidemic disease.
-
4/19/2020
Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health
by M. Andrew Holowchak
Although Thomas Jefferson was generally an anti-urbanist, he did offer insight into the role of land use in helping towns and cities control epidemics and promote public health.
-
SOURCE: The New York Times
4/12/2020
The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege
by Kathryn Olivarius
We’ve seen what happens when people with immunity to a deadly disease are given special treatment. It isn’t pretty.
-
SOURCE: Creators Syndicate
3/25/2020
Notes From the New Normal
by Jamie Stiehm
America is not immune to the world. We're all connected in "a single garment of destiny," as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote.
News
- Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History
- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel