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Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, Postwar Politics (>1783), Primary Sources May 14, 2020 May 11, 2020

Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefits of Epidemics

by Geoff Smock

An epidemic that violently attacks public health—that sickens and takes lives; that cripples our economy; that forces us into our homes; that turns cities…

Features, Illness and Disease, Interviews April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Brian Patrick O’Malley on Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Brian Patrick O’Malley on the social and medical response to the Yellow Fever epidemic that ravaged…

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