Malthus didn’t foresee the different population paths countries would take, writes Thomas Grennes in Regulation.
What history can tell us about epidemics. On History Today.
Phil Magness discusses the eugenics leanings of John Maynard Keynes. On AIER.
Dame Vera Lynn, who rallied Britain in World War II with her singing, issues new video to encourage Britain now. She is 103.
Anton Howes tells the history of an eighteenth-century surgeon who required handwashing of his patients. It worked, but the policy stopped with him.
The New York Times’ 1619 Project makes a ‘small but crucial concession’ to criticism. Phil Magness discusses at AIER.
‘What Pepys’s plague diaries can teach us about coronavirus.’ By Gavin Mortimer in the (U.K.) Spectator.
A historian puts plagues and panics into perspective. Victor Davis Hanson in City Journal.
Sunlight, fresh air, and hand-made face masks reduced 1918 deaths from the flu, writes Richard Hobday.
William L. Anderson reprises his 2004 article about the history of government and the flu.
Women voted in 20 states, starting in the West, years before Congress let them vote. On the. Mountain States Legal Foundation site.
Another take on the New York Times’ 1619 Project:. Mark Levin and Robert Woodson discuss it on TV. PJ Media reports.
There really was a Rosie the Riveter. She died March 4 at age 95. The National Geographic shares her story.
‘I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.’ Historian Leslie Harris in Politico.
Should the British apologize for the 1919 Amritsar massacre? Military History Today asks.
Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic. On Military History Today.
Thomas Downing, son of a slave, created a famed oyster house before the Civil War. On NC State’s history blog.
The link between quarantine and xenophobia, discussed by History Today.
The story of the Liverpool slave trade. In History Today.
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Who was right about Americans—Dickens or Tocqueville? On Law & Liberty.
Acton Institute discusses President James Garfield, an impressive figure whose career was ended by an assassin six months after his election in 1880.
Ten accidents that changed history (from the Reader’s Digest).