Johnstown Flood — Bunk History

People walking around buildings destroyed by the Johnstown Flood.

A Flood of Tourism in Johnstown

Days after a failed dam led to the drowning deaths of more than 2,200 people, the Pennsylvania industrial town was flooded again—with tourists.

by Matthew Wills, Emily Godbey via JSTOR Daily on March 1, 2024

Johnstown, Pennsylvania after flood

How America’s Most Powerful Men Caused America’s Deadliest Flood

A desire to fish created an epic 1889 flood.

by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on August 11, 2017

The Devastating 1889 Johnstown Flood Killed Over 2,000 People in Minutes

When a dam gave way after unprecedented rainfall, it sent a wall of water barreling toward a Pennsylvania town of 30,000 people.

by Alex Q. Arbuckle via Mashable on February 5, 2017

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

The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.

by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

Demonstrators holding signs at George Floyd protest in NYC, 2020.

Americans Used to Unite Over Tragic Events − and Now Are Divided By Them

Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today.

by Thomas D. Beamish via The Conversation on June 18, 2024

Cross-shaped steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center

Disasters and the Politics of Memory

The challenges involved in constructing the 9-11 Museum in New York City within the context of other man-made disasters.

by Kevin Rozario via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on September 1, 2014

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