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HIST 197: The History of Epidemics
19th & 20th Century Epidemics
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HIST 197: The History of Epidemics
General Resources
Early Epidemics (pre-1800)
19th & 20th Century Epidemics
21st Century Epidemics
Scholarly Articles
Citing Your Sources
Librarian
Eric Novotny
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Contact:
W321 Pattee Library
814-865-1014
Subjects:
African American History
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Campus: University Park
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History
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Languages
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Middle East Studies
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News Sources
Medical Texts & Images
1918 Influenza Escape Communities Digital Archive
Documents on seven U.S. communities largely untouched by the influenza epidemic.
AIDS Poster Collection
Digitized posters from 44 countries.
Also see the
Aids Posters
from the Wellcome Library
Albert B. Sabin Archives
Digital archive relating to polio and the development of the polio vaccine.
American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia
Newspaper reports, health bulletins and other reports document the health crisis in America.
Aristides Agramonte Yellow Fever Collection
Over 130 books and journal articles discussing yellow fever in New York, Philadelphia, Barbados and New Orleans, and other areas.
Cholera Online: A Pandemic in Texts and Images
518 English language monographs and images dating from 1817 to 1900 dealing with the cholera pandemic.
Historical Medical Poster Collection
Over 500 posters aimed at educating the public about health issues.
History of Western Medicine in China
19th and early 20th century texts including english language journals and reports on medicine in China.
HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago (1981-2011)
Contains oral histories, interviews, primary documents, and other materials documenting the cultural, social, and public health history of HIV/AIDS, 1981-2011
Medical History of British India
Reports relating to disease and prevention from 1850 to 1950.
Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication
A searchable database of documents, oral histories, photographs and media
Medicine and Madison Avenue
600 advertisements from 1850-1920.
UK Medical Heritage Library
​Books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century
News and Magazine Sources
Historical Newspapers
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News and Newspaper Sources
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