Pandemics: History of Epidemics & Pandemics

This page links to several different articles touching on plagues, other epidemics, and pandemics.

Cambridge University posted this video on YouTube, November 30, 2018.

See links to other flu pandemics linked to this page.

April 2, 2020 article by Michael Wilson in The New York Times.

Samuel K. Cohn's article in History Journal 2012 November 1; 85(230): 535–555. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00603.x.

Mrs. Edna Register Boone, interviewed in 2008, describes living through the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Posted on YouTube August 27, 2012 by the Alabama Department of Archives & History.

April 4, 2020 article written by the staff of The New York Times. Listen to audio files and see quotes from survivors.

Article by Alan Cowell, published in The New York Times on March 20, 2020.

Noah Webster, 1758-1843 wrote this work published in 1799. Part of the Evans Early American Imprint Collection and made available by the University of Michigan.