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Andrew Wehrman

Episode 107: “The Politics of Smallpox in Revolutionary America”

John Fea   |  December 19, 2022

The American Revolution happened in the midst of a smallpox epidemic. In one of the timeliest history books of the publishing season, historian Andrew Wehrman visits the podcast to talk about what the patriots of the American Revolution and the...

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A St. Louis anti-vaxxer was arrested, strapped down by four men, and vaccinated after trying to convince Blacks from the South not to take the vaccine

John Fea   |  February 12, 2022

The article is from the St. Louis Dispatch, August 6, 1923. Thanks to historian Andrew Wehrman for bringing this to my attention. Here is his Twitter commentary:...

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What a Charles Willson Peale painting can teach us about vaccinating our children

John Fea   |  December 4, 2021

Central Michigan University historian Andrew Wehrman has been an indispensable guide in this age of COVID-19. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Age of Revolutions blog: For portrait painters like Charles Willson Peale, ignoring smallpox was part...

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Sources on the history of religious-based vaccine resistance in America

John Fea   |  December 3, 2021

I included a lot of history in today’s Current feature on vaccine exemptions. The piece draws on a talk I gave earlier this week to the constituents of the Council of Foreign Relations. I am told that the video will...

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Tweet of the Day

John Fea   |  November 30, 2021

Andrew Wehrman nails it:...

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Vaccination mandates have a long history. Backlash to vaccination mandates have a long history.

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Good to see Andrew Wehrman cited in Maggie Astor’s New York Times piece. A taste: Professor Wehrman this week tweeted an example of what, in an interview, he said was a “ubiquitous” phenomenon: The health board in Urbana, Ohio, Jordan’s hometown, enacted...

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Vaccine mandates are very American

John Fea   |  September 8, 2021

Ohio representative Jim Jordan recently tweeted this: Not really. Here is The Washington Post: At a time when the delta variant’s summer surge has renewed the nation’s divisions over coronavirus vaccines, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday said mandates enforcing...

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Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States

John Fea   |  January 20, 2021

It’s official. The Trump presidency is over. The Biden presidency is here. Here are a few thoughts, with the help of my Twitter feed, on today’s inauguration ceremony: I began the day with a reminder. It’s been a long four...

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What early Americans could teach Donald Trump about this pandemic

John Fea   |  July 21, 2020

Check out historian Andrew Wehrman‘s piece at The Washington Post: Thomas Paine, who had helped shift public opinion with “Common Sense” in the spring of 1776, wrote a new book weighing in on the French Revolution from London, titled “The Rights...

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Tweet of the Night

John Fea   |  July 29, 2019

It comes from Central Michigan University historian Andrew Wehrman.  He comments on Trump’s visit to Jamestown tomorrow: Will Trump mention that on his personal coat of arms John Smith had the three heads of Muslim Turks that he supposedly beheaded?...

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The Thanksgiving Paradox

John Fea   |  November 26, 2015

My friend and fellow early American historian Andrew Wehrman  has dubbed Matthew Dennis’s piece at The Conversation “the best of Thanksgiving essays written by an early American historian this year.”  It is hard to argue with Andrew’s assessment of Dennis’s “Why Thanksgiving...

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