Public Responses and Human Experiences

The references featured here highlight people's lived experiences of epidemics and pandemics, past and present. The authors employ social and cultural analyses of disease outbreaks and their impacts on both individual people and larger social groups living within and beyond the United States.
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The AHA’s Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19 Zotero Library allows users to sort and filter entries using more than 145 topics.
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“Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19” includes commentary and publications by historians in both scholarly and popular periodical literature; recorded interviews and webcasts; and digitized primary source materials from past epidemics and pandemics. If you have an article, op-ed, interview, etc. that you think should be included in the bibliography please fill out this form to submit a reference.