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Sick Days

How Congress bent the rules to combat the Spanish Flu while it's own members began to become victims of the pandemic

via History, Art, & Archives: United States House of Representatives on December 17, 2018

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

What Thucydides Knew About the US Today

His accounts of polarization in ancient Athens are as relevant today they were thousands of years ago.

by Edward Mendelson via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2018

Rediscovering a Founding Mother

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.

by Stephen Fried via Smithsonian Magazine on August 22, 2018

Epidemic Proportions

How Americans have understood epidemics, from the Columbian Exchange to COVID-19.

Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries

For a time, eating and relaxing among the dead was a national pastime.

by Jonathan Kendall via Atlas Obscura on April 20, 2018

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the Mall in Washington, DC in 1987.

'We Need a Day.' Meet the Man Who Helped Create World AIDS Day

A conversation with the man behind World AIDS Day.

by Jim Bunn, Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on November 30, 2017

Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement

Unraveling the connections between public health and civil rights in 1960s New Orleans.

by Ijeoma Cola via Books, Health and History on November 2, 2017

An illustration of Christopher Columbus’s initial meeting with Native Americans.

The Columbian Exchange

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Jamie Lathan via Digital Public Library of America on September 19, 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

Thank the Erie Canal for Spreading People, Ideas and Germs Across America

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian Magazine on July 3, 2017

A Century of Highway Zombies

Since the 1920s, “highway hypnosis” has lulled drivers to disaster.

by Carmine Grimaldi via The Atlantic on July 29, 2016

Public Health and the Dead at Johnstown

How do we humanely bury the dead after a disaster?

by Vicki Daniel via Nursing Clio on December 2, 2015

Reconstruction of Mt. Malady hospital at Henricus Historical Park, Virginia.

Health Care in the New World

Reporter Catherine Moore visits the first hospital in the New World and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks.

via BackStory on October 1, 2009

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