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Plague Diaries: Firsthand Accounts of Epidemics, 430 B.C. to A.D. 1918
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.
- Author
- Ryan Johnson, David Ulrich & Tina Ulrich
- Publisher
- LibreTexts
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Accounting & Auditing
Contents· 10 sections
- 01: Chapters
- 1.01: Such was the history of the plague- from History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1.02: During these times there was a pestilence- History of the Wars
- 1.03: All human wisdom and foresight were vain- Foreword to The Decameron
- 1.04: A Journal of the Plague Year- Bubonic Plague in London 1665
- 1.05: The disorder I fear increases- Yellow Fever in Philadelphia 1803
- 1.06: We have a terrible sickness here at this place- Smallpox on the Ottawa Reservation in Peshawbestown Michigan 1881
- 1.07: I have used my best effort in a kind way- Smallpox among the Hopi 1898
- 1.08: We sure did get tired- Letter from a Volunteer Nurse October 17 1918
- 1.09: Volunteers Required- Newspaper Articles on Spanish Flu from Wausau Wisconsin64