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Kathryn Olivarius

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The Sick Society

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

by Malcolm Harris, Kathryn Olivarius via n+1 on September 2, 2022
How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in 19th-Century New Orleans

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

by Kathryn Olivarius, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on April 19, 2022

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

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How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."

by Leah Donnella via NPR on October 31, 2018

Paper Products. Powder Rooms. What Past Pandemics Left Behind Forever.

Disease reshapes our lives in surprising ways.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 23, 2021

Numbering the Dead

A brief history of death tolls.

by Shannon Pufahl via New York Review of Books on April 21, 2020

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