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A cemetery.

New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials.
by Charlie Lee via The American Scholar on December 7, 2020
A map of the origins of illnesses across the world.

The Name Blame Game

A history of inflammatory illness epithets.
by Haisam Hussein via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 2020
Image of a Black man wearing a black mask saying "I Can't Breathe"

A History of Anti-Black Racism In Medicine

This syllabus lays groundwork for making questions of race and racism central to studying the histories of medicine and science.
by Elise A. Mitchell, Ayah Nuriddin, Antoine S. Johnson via Black Perspectives on August 12, 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

Historical Insights on COVID-19, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities

Illuminating a path forward.
by Lakshmi Krishnan, S. Michelle Ogunwole, Lisa A. Cooper via Annals Of Internal Medicine on June 5, 2020
Comedy troupe on stage.

Finding the Funny

Historians’ lectures provide material for improv comedians.
by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on May 13, 2020

How Racism Is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic

For hundreds of years, false theories of “innate difference and deficit in black bodies” have shaped American responses to disease.
by Evelynn M. Hammonds, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on May 7, 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
Trump speech script with "Corona" crossed out and changed to "Chinese" Virus.
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Stop Calling Covid-19 a Foreign Virus

Medical xenophobia has dangerous ramifications.
by Mark A. Goldberg via Made By History on March 26, 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
Virus seen through a microscope.

How Pandemics Change History

The historian Frank M. Snowden discusses the politics of restricting travel during epidemics and more.
by Frank M. Snowden, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on March 3, 2020

How New York City Found Clean Water

For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.
by Jonathan Schifman via Smithsonian on November 25, 2019

When New Yorkers Burned Down a Quarantine Hospital

On September 1st, 1858, a mob stormed the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island, and set fire to the building.
by Matthew Wills, Kathryn Stephenson via JSTOR Daily on September 19, 2019

How Mosquitoes Changed Everything

They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet.
by Brooke Jarvis via The New Yorker on July 29, 2019
Detail from a painting of David Hosack’s "Elgin Garden," ca. 1815.

Flower Power: Hamilton's Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

In the early 1800s, David Hosack created one of the nation's first botanical gardens to further his pioneering medical research.
by Rebecca Rego Barry via The Public Domain Review on January 24, 2019

Rediscovering a Founding Mother

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, Julia Rush.
by Stephen Fried via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

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

Arthur Mervin, Bankrupt

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.
by Katherine Gaudet via Commonplace on January 1, 2018
A New Orleans parade, with confetti falling on the heads of men dancing in suits.

Sundays in the Streets

The long history of benevolence, self-help, and parades in New Orleans.
by Leslie Parr via Southern Cultures on December 16, 2016
Magellan’s ship, the Victoria, in the Pacific Ocean on the map of the New World.

The Land Divided, The World United

Building the Panama Canal.
via Linda Hall Library on April 8, 2014
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How Suffering Shaped Emancipation

Jim Downs discusses the plight of freed slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
by Jim Downs, Robin Lindley via HNN on August 6, 2012

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