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

- By: Ryan Johnson, David Ulrich & Tina Ulrich
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/Poetry_Plays_Essays_and_other_Genres/Plague_Diaries%3A_Firsthand_Accounts_of_Epidemics_430_B.C._to_A.D._1918_(Johnson_Ulrich_and_Ulrich))
- Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/Poetry_Plays_Essays_and_other_Genres/Plague_Diaries%3A_Firsthand_Accounts_of_Epidemics_430_B.C._to_A.D._1918_(Johnson_Ulrich_and_Ulrich)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-55866/pdf

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.