Connecting History

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Ukrainian refugees sheltering beneath a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022.
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.
The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath
U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)
Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces
Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New
Port of Buenos Aires
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.
Black Canadians and Pandemics
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza
a woman caring for someone with HIV
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.
Work and Life after COVID-19
A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.
Early American Contagions
A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in this depiction.
Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.
Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
Florynce Rae Kennedy (center), a U.S. black feminist protesting outside The International Women’s Year Tribune (UN Photo by B. Lane).
The 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.
The Justinianic Plague