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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How many people died because we failed to take seriously the lessons of the past?
COVID-19 is now the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history. Here is Elizabeth Gamillo at Smithsonian Magazine: The coronavirus pandemic has become the deadliest disease outbreak in recent American history with tolls surpassing the estimated deaths of the 1918 flu. According to...