In progress

Primary Sources in Diaries, Film, Literature

• Experiencing Epidemics (European University Institute)
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DeFoe
• U.S. Library of Medicine: The Public Health Film Goes to War: The Films (World War II)

Exhibits

• Science Museum (United Kingdom): Epidemics (including bubonic plague (Black Death), smallpox, and polio)

Subject Guides

• The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia (University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine)
• Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics (Harvard University)
• A Timeline for the Eradication of Smallpox
• Tropical Diseases in Primary Sources Guide (created by Boston College) (including cholera, beriberi, dengue fever, malaria, plague (Black Death), sleeping sickness, smallpox)

Secondary Resources

• Honigsbaum, Mark. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. First edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Print. (ZSR Library Atrium RA650.5 .H665 2019)
• Kenny, Charles. The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease. New York: Scribner, 2021. (on order)
• Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth. Infectious Diseases in Context. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2009.
• Magner, Lois. A History of Infectious Diseases and the Microbial World. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009.