Plague Diaries: Firsthand Accounts of Epidemics, 430 B.C. to A.D. 1918

by Ryan Johnson, David Ulrich & Tina Ulrich

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This project originated in response to the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the globe and its various knock-on effects. We created a small collection of openly available primary documents discussing epidemics from the past, such as the Black Death in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century and smallpox hitting northern Michigan in the nineteenth.

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Subjects
Humanities, Literature and Literacy
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Note to Faculty
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. Note to Adopters
  8. 1: Chapters
  9. 1.1: “Such was the history of the plague-” from History of the Peloponnesian War
  10. 1.2: “During these times there was a pestilence-” History of the Wars
  11. 1.3: “All human wisdom and foresight were vain-” Foreword to The Decameron
  12. 1.4: A Journal of the Plague Year- Bubonic Plague in London, 1665
  13. 1.5: “The disorder, I fear, increases-” Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1803
  14. 1.6: “We have a terrible sickness here at this place-” Smallpox on the Ottawa Reservation in Peshawbestown, Michigan, 1881
  15. 1.7: “I have used my best effort in a kind way-” Smallpox among the Hopi, 1898
  16. 1.8: “We sure did get tired-” Letter from a Volunteer Nurse, October 17, 1918
  17. 1.9: “Volunteers Required-” Newspaper Articles on Spanish Flu from Wausau, Wisconsin 64
  18. Back Matter
  19. Index
  20. Index
  21. Glossary
  22. Detailed Licensing