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Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
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
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine
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
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
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
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
An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.
The Black Death and its Aftermath
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.
The Respirator and Cloth Mask
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.
Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)
Inside the National Veteran's Museum and Memorial - The NVMM's exhibits chronicle the stages of a veteran's experience.
The National Veterans Museum and Memorial
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies