Influenza Epidemics in History

E. Thomas Ewing, “The Last Pandemic. Using History to Guide Us in the Difficult Present,” Humanities. The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Vol. 41, No. 3, Summer 2020, pp. 16-19, 44-45: https://www.neh.gov/article/last-pandemic.

Jessica Brabble, E. Thomas Ewing, and Ariel Ludwig, “Debates over mask-wearing are nothing new. History shows masks are a key tool for combating viruses,” Made By History, Washington Post, September 6, 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/06/debates-over-mask-wearing-are-nothing-new/

Katherine Randall, Linsey C. Marr, and E. Thomas Ewing, “Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures,” Circulating Now, October 22, 2020:
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/10/22/droplet-infection-explained-in-pictures/

Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, “Revealing Data: Flu Masks on Ships, 1918,” Circulating Now, from the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine, November 11, 2020: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/11/11/revealing-data-flu-masks-on-ships-1918/

E. Thomas Ewing and Jeffrey S. Reznick, “Clerks Wearing Masks: Building Historical Empathy while Teaching the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” Perspectives on History, December 9, 2020:
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2020/clerks-wearing-masks-building-historical-empathy-while-teaching-the-1918-influenza-epidemic

E. Thomas Ewing, “History reminds us that vaccines alone don’t end pandemics,” Washington Post: Made by History, November 30, 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/30/history-reminds-us-that-vaccines-alone-dont-end-pandemics/

E. Thomas Ewing, “Virginia’s Search for a Vaccine in 1918,” Roanoke Times, December 27, 2020.

E. Thomas Ewing, Steven E. Rigdon & Ronald D. Fricker Jr. (2020) Understanding COVID‐19 in 2020 Through the Lens of the 1918 “Spanish Flu” Epidemic, Chance. American Statistical Association, 33:3, 4-21, DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2020.1820245

Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. Thomas Ewing, “‘All the World’s a Harem’: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918-1919 Flu Pandemic,” Nursing Clio, September 8, 2020: https://nursingclio.org/2020/09/08/all-the-worlds-a-harem-perceptions-of-masked-women-during-the-1918-1919-flu-pandemic/

Jessica Brabble, E. Thomas Ewing, and Ariel Ludwig, “Debates over mask-wearing are nothing new. History shows masks are a key tool for combating viruses, Made By History, Washington Post, September 6, 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/06/debates-over-mask-wearing-are-nothing-new/

Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. Thomas Ewing, “‘The Mask Law will be Rigidly Enforced’: Ordinances, Arrests, and Celebrations during the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic,” Society for Historians of of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Blog, August 11, 2020. https://www.shgape.org/the-mask-law-will-be-rigidly-enforced/

Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. Thomas Ewing, “Wearing a Mask in Virginia – Historical Lessons from 1918,” Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), August 11, 2020. https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/jessica-brabble-ariel-ludwig-and-e-thomas-ewing-column-wearing-a-mask-in-virginia-historical/article_cc0b1788-1f26-56c5-a1e6-d964053fb8da.html

Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, “The Task of the Mask,” The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA), August 5, 2020. https://roanoke.com/townnews/medicine/luwig-brabble-and-ewing-the-task-of-the-mask/article_b33fb3e3-e547-58e4-bac4-7843213ccbb0.html

E. Thomas Ewing, Ariel Ludwig, and Jessica Brabble, “Why was there a Backlash against Face Masks during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918?” History Extra, published by the BBC, July 24, 2020. https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/wear-face-masks-backlash-opposition-why-spanish-flu-coronavirus-covid-history/

Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, “Flu Masks in Indiana during the 1918 Epidemic,” Items, Insights from the Social Sciences, published by the Social Science Research Council, July 23, 2020.
https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/mediated-crisis/flu-masks-in-indiana-during-the-1918-epidemic/

E. Thomas Ewing, “Flu Masks Failed in 1918, But We Need Them Now,” Health Affairs Blog, May 12, 2020 (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, “A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” Nursing Clio, May 17, 2020 (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, Context is key to understanding and using covid-19 data to guide policy,” Made by History, Washington Post, May 19, 2020 (link / subscription)

E. Thomas Ewing, “Closing Schools for the Rest of the Year is the Right Move,” Made by History, Washington Post, April 13, 2020 (link / subscription)

E. Thomas Ewing, “How the Media Can Help Fight the Flu,” Made by History, Washington Post, November 19, 2019 (link / subscription)

E. Thomas Ewing, “Kiss via Kerchief: Influenza Warnings in 1918,” Nursing Clio, February 12, 2020 (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, “The first American Cases of Coronavirus Shouldn’t Spark a Panic,” Made by History, Washington Post, February 28, 2020 (link / subscription needed)

E. Thomas Ewing, “La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics during the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana.” Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. Vol. 13, No. 13, May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12632.

E. Thomas Ewing, Veronica Kimmerly and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, “Dr. Shrady Says: The 1890 Russian Influenza as a Case Study for Understanding Epidemics in History.” Medical Heritage Library Research Blog, Parts 1, 2, and 3. August September 2016. (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, “Influenza Precautions, Then and Now,” Circulating Now, U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, posted January 15, 2015. (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, “Exploring Chicago’s Spanish Flu of 1918,” Circulating Now, U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, posted November 5, 2013. (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, “’The Two Diseases Are So Utterly Dissimilar’: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Advance Scholarship in the Global History of Medicine.” Current Research in Digital History, Vol. 1 (2018). George Mason University Center for History and New Media: http://crdh.rrchnm.org/.

E. Thomas Ewing, “’Will It Come Here?’ Using Digital Humanities Tools to Explore Medical Understanding during the Russian Flu Epidemic, 1889-90,” Medical History, Vol. 61, No, 3 (July 2017), pp. 474-477.

E. Thomas Ewing, Veronica Kimmerly and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, “’Look Out for La Grippe’: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Interpret Information Dissemination during the Russian Flu, 1889-1890.” Medical History Vol. 60, Issue 1 (January 2016), pp. 129-131. DOI 10.1017/mdh.2015.84.

E. Thomas Ewing, Ian Hargreaves, Jessica King, Andrew Pregnall, and Tyler Talnagi, “Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting,” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine, November 14, 2018; “Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic,” Circulating Now, November 15, 2018; “Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods,” Circulating Now, November 16, 2018. (link)