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Conservative Fatalism About the Coronavirus Might Actually Help Us

The philosophy behind calls to lift stay-at-home orders.
by Lara Freidenfelds via Made By History on May 21, 2020

Patients and Patience: The Long Career of Yellow Fever

Extending the narrative of Philadelphia's epidemic past 1793 yields lessons that are more complex and less comforting than the story that's often told.
by Simon Finger via The Panorama on May 18, 2020
Woman working on a computer and holding a baby in her lap.
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Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.
by Sarah Keyes via Made By History on May 12, 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
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Living With the Dead

From rituals of mourning to spirit mediums and ghost stories, Americans' varied attempts to connect with those who have gone before us.
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A Public Calamity

The ways that authorities in Richmond, Virginia, responded to the 1918 Flu offer a lens onto what – and who – was most valued by those in power there.
via Future Of America's Past on May 1, 2020

Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Atlantic on April 29, 2020

What the Civil War Can Teach Us About COVID-19

Lessons from another time of great disillusionment.
by Jason Phillips via OUPblog on April 18, 2020
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Coronavirus Has a Playlist. Songs About Disease Go Way Back.

Coronavirus songwriting has gone as global as the pandemic itself, creating a new genre called pandemic pop. It’s a tradition with a long history.
by Anthony DeCurtis via Retro Report 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

What We Can Learn From 1918 Influenza Diaries

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on April 13, 2020
LGBT demonstrators link arms facing a line of mounted police.

They Were Warriors: The ACT UP Protests That Shook Chicago

In 1990, activists — many fighting for their lives — staged one of the biggest AIDS demonstrations in history. Here’s how it played out, in the words of those who were there.
by Mary Patten, Rebecca Makkai, Lori Cannon, Jeff Edwards, Justin Hayford, Saundra Johnson, Owen Keehnen, Steve Migalski, Roberto Sanabria, Jeanne Kracher, Bill McMillan via Chicago Magazine on April 7, 2020
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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 the Black Death Radically Changed the Course of History

A look at the economic changes that occured after the Black Death in Europe and what that could mean for the aftermath of Covid-19.
by Steve LeVine via Medium on April 2, 2020
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 School Shooting That Austin Forgot

In 1978, an eighth grader from a prominent Austin family killed his teacher. His classmates are still haunted by what happened that terrible day and after.
by Robert Draper via Texas Monthly on March 18, 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

Janis Joplin, the Mistaken Icon of the Counterculture

The counterculture dictum to “turn on, tune in, drop out” did not quite capture Janis’s philosophy to “get it while you can.”
by Shalon Van Tine via Tropics of Meta on March 15, 2020
A photo of William Faulkner

The Road to Glory: Faulkner’s Hollywood Years, 1932–1936

Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936.
by Lisa C. Hickman via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 27, 2020

On the Lost Lyric Poetry of Amelia Earhart

A missing pilot and her poems.
by Traci Brimhall via New England Review on February 21, 2020
Two U.S. Marines, and dog, kneeling in front of grave marked with Christian cross.

Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.
by Greg Wilsbacher via The Conversation on February 13, 2020
Cover of "Speaking with the Dead in Early America" by Erik R. Seeman

Speaking with the Dead in Early America

A new book recovers the many ways Protestant Americans, especially women, communicated with the dead from the 17th century to the rise of séance Spiritualism.
by Erik Seeman via The Junto on December 9, 2019

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

In 1873, there weren’t very many options for the public in the United States to see what a real whale looked like.
by Lydia Pyne via Not Even Past on December 3, 2019
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Drawn and Recorded: Blind Willie in Space

Dark was the night, cold was the ground, and brilliant is that song drifting through space.
by Drew Christie, Bill Flanagan via Aeon on October 31, 2019

The Immigration Crisis Archive

How did today's bipartisan understanding of immigration—as an intolerable threat that justifies any means to stop it—take hold?
by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández via Public Books on October 25, 2019
Lithograph of the Fox Sisters.
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The Fox Sisters

The story of Kate and Margaret Fox, the small-town girls who triggered the 19th century movement known as Spiritualism.
via BackStory on October 25, 2019
Illustration of WWI soldiers hiking thorugh a field; the painting uses light pastel colors and surrounds the soldiers with mist

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.
by Rebecca Onion via Literary Hub on October 21, 2019
Lewis Leary.

Alive With Ghosts Today

Lewis Leary, who volunteered in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, later inspired poetry by Langston Hughes.
by Sarah Kay Bierle via Emerging Civil War on October 16, 2019

Managing Our Darkest Hatreds And Fears: Witchcraft From The Middle Ages To Brett Kavanaugh

America has a history of dealing with witches - and it has culminated in a modern movement of politically active ones.
by Diane Purkiss via Athenaeum Review on October 14, 2019
Panorama of the Iroquois Theater after the fire, 1903. Photograph by Henry Albert Ericson.

Fire!

A brief history of theater fires in New York City—and the regulations that helped people escape them.
by Olivia Rutigliano via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 7, 2019
A broken down tank in the desert with smoke in the background.

Black Rain on the Highway of Death

An Iraqi soldier recalls fleeing through hell at the end of the first gulf war.
by Hussein Adil via The Nib on September 22, 2019
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