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Yellow Fever 1793
Essay
Richard Brookhiser
Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
The Influenza of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020: Some Parallels and Differences
John M. Barry
Invisible Threats and the Politics of Disaster: Three Mile Island and Covid-19
Natasha Zaretsky
History in the Making: COVIDCalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Scott Gabriel Knowles and Bucky Stanton
Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
The Importance of Studying Disasters: Ideas and Advice for the Classroom
Liz Skilton
From the Editor
Carol Berkin
Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793
Spotlight on: Primary Source
The Map Proves It, ca. 1919
Government and Civics
An appeal for suffrage support, 1871