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• History of Epidemics and Plagues

  This site focuses on the medical causes and transmission mechanics of epidemics but does give some interesting historical background.

• Influenza Encyclopedia

  From the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine. An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, of the approximately 50 million deaths the disease caused worldwide. The collection includes more than 16,000 digitized documents: correspondence, newspaper accounts, military records, diaries, photographs, and more.

• Major US Epidemics

  Brief timeline with death tolls from some of the major epidemics in US history.

• Man and Microbes : Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times

  A book by Arno Karlen.

• New Jersey Hot Zones! : Viruses, Diseases, & Epidemics in Our State's History

  A book by Carole Marsh.

• Nineteenth Century Public Health and Epidemics: Sources in The National Archives

  Research Guide from the National Archives, United Kingdom.

• OntarioGenWeb - Epidemics

  Historic epidemics in the province of Ontario.

• Open Collections Program: Contagion - Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

  A digital library collection from Harvard University's libraries. Organized by date & location of the epidemics, these materials include digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages freely accessible via the Internet.

• Oshkosh in 1918: An interdisciplinary study of the 1918 influenza epidemic

  Wisconsin.

• Plague in San Francisco: An Essay Review

  From the Journal of the History of Medicine.

• Plagues & Epidemics

  From a history of plumbing, this site focuses on this history of water-borne diseases.

• Plagues and Epidemics

• Plagues and Peoples

  A book by William H. McNeill.

• Plagues by State, City, Date

  A history of plagues & epidemics, mostly US.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Poisons of the Past : Molds, Epidemics, and History

  A book by Mary Kilbourne Matossian.

• Potterspury's Cholera Outbreak 1854

  Northamptonshire, England.

• Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

  A book by Elizabeth A. Fenn.

• Quarantine! : East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

• Reported Outbreaks of Infectious Disease, Maryland, 1731-1870

  Medical Care in the City of Baltimore, 1752-1919.

• The American Experience - Influenza, 1918

  Companion web site to the PBS documentary.