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The Breath of Pestilence: Recent Literature on Pandemics in North America: Works Cited

By Robert Ridinger

Works Cited

Bloom, Khaled J. The Mississippi Valley’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Louisiana State, 1993. (CH, May’94, 31-4938).

Bristow, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Oxford, 2012 (CH, Oct’12, 50-0906); reissued, 2017.

Christakis, Nicholas. Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live. Little, Brown Spark, 2020.

Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr. Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS. Oxford, 2018. (CH, Jan’19, 56-1966).

Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650. Cambridge, 1998. (CH, Oct’98, 36-1113)

Coss, Stephen. The Fever of 1721. The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics. Simon & Schuster, 2016. (Dec’16, 54-1896).

Crosby, Molly Caldwell. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History. Berkley Books, 2006. (CH, Jun’07, 44-5672).

Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. (CH, Sep’95, 43-0352).

Gordon, Billy. Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World. Yale, 2013.

Harrison, Mark. Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease. Yale, 2012. (CH, Jul’13, 50-6209).

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Heifferon, Barbara. America’s First Vaccination: The Controversy of 1721–22. Routledge, 2023.

Hempel. Sandra. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. California, 2007 (CH, Jul’07, 44-6264).

Honigsbaum, Mark. The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. W. W. Norton, 2019 (CH, Oct’19, 57-0607).

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Pettit, Dorothy Ann, and Janice Baillie. A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918–1920. Timberlane, 2008.

Pierce, John, and Jim Writer. Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. J. Wiley, 2005.

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Watson, Robert P. America’s First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic That Crippled a Young Nation. Rowman and Littlefield, 2023 (CH, Oct’23, 61-0429).

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