8 Nov 2020
In my previous post we talked about the ways in which newspaper comic strips—the place in a daily paper, otherwise devoted to world wars and local political debates, that was in 1918 primarily focused on entertainment and humor—engaged with the most devastating pandemic the United States had experienced. In the comic strips, cartoonists sought both […]
5 Apr 2020
[1] See Carol R. Byerly, “The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919,” Public Health Report 125 (2010 ): 82–91. JGJared Gardner is a professor and patient at the Ohio State University. jaredgardner.org
1 Feb 2020
JGJared Gardner is a professor and patient at the Ohio State University. jaredgardner.org
15 Jan 2020
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
27 Nov 2019
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
2 Oct 2019
The threat cholera posed was not limited to the population’s health, but extended into political and social concerns of the era. When cholera arrived via Britain’s harbors and waterways in 1832, the disease swept across a nation agitated by political unrest and a deeply divided class system. The working population, disenfranchised and without democratic representation, […]
7 Sep 2019
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
11 Nov 2020
Spanish Flu and THE GUMPS
Several years ago I had a chance to work on a collection of one of my very favorite comics, The Gumps, by Sidney Smith. In this edition, for the Library of American Comics Essentials series, we collected the year leading up to the tragic death of Mary Gold in 1929, the first comic strip character […]
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