History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett
Introduction Age of Empire Age of Total War Baseball Bibliographies Cloak & Dagger Gulf Wars Harry & Ike Holocaust KSCHE Middle East Modern Civ Soviet Union Terrorism Online Vietnam World Since 1945 World War I World War II WWII Roundtable

Updated as of 2 October 05

Today in History:

On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. 

Quote of the Day:

"In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys."

A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004)

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Take the Ann Coulter Quiz

Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out.

"History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors"

Teaching isn't such a novel idea

Announcements

Age of Despotism

Age of Total War

Current  History

Dictators and Dems

DDE in War & Peace

Splendid Little Wars

Terrorism Online

World War II Online

Bibliography: History of Disease

Bioterrorism

Contemporary Terrorist Organizations

How to Write an Essay

Map of Islamic Terrorist Cells in the U.S.A.

PowerPoint Notes

Reaction Papers

TASK Information Updates

Terrorism Cybrary

Terrorism Filmography

Terrorism Glossary

new.gif (2881 bytes)Yahoo! Groups TASK Teachers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History of Disease Bibliography

Ken Alibek. Biohazard. New York: Random House, 1999.

John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York: Viking, 2004.

Allan M. Brandt. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease In The United States Since 1880. New York: Oxford, 1985.

Norman Cantor. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. New York: Perennial, 2002.

 Frederick F. Cartwright. Disease and History. New York: Mentor, 1972.

Marilyn Chase. The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. New York: Random House, 2003.

Carlo Cipolla. Faith, Reason, and The Plague in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany. New York: W.W.  Norton, 1979.

Richard Collier. The Plague of The Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. New York: Atheneum, 1974.

Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. The Columbia Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1972.

       . Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe.  New York: Cambridge, 1986.

       . America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. New York: Cambridge, 1989.

Molly Caldwell Crosby. America Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History. New York: Berkley, 2006.

Daniel Defoe. A Journal of the Plague Year. New York: Penguin, 1722, 2003.

 Robert S. Desowitz. The Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How it Works. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

 ___. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

 ___. The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

 ___. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Elizabeth A. Fenn. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

 John G. Fuller. Fever!: The Hunt For A New Killer Virus. New York: Ballantine, 1974.

 ___. The Day We Bombed Utah. New York: New American Library, 1984.

 Hugh Gregory Gallagher. FDR's Splendid Deception. New York: Dodd Mead, 1985.

 Robert Gallo. Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery. New York: HaperCollins, 1991.

 Laurie Garrett. The Coming Plague. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.

Gerald L. Gieson. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Robert S. Gottfried. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. New York: Free Press, 1983.

Tony Gould. A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors. New Haven: Yale, 1995.

Jeanne Guillemin. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak. Los Angles: University of California Press, 1999.

 Robin Marantz Henig. A Dancing Matrix: Voyages Along The Viral Frontier. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Daniel R. Hopkins. Princes and Peasants: Smallpox In History. Chicago: University Press of Chicago, 1983

 James H. Jones. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: Free Press, 1981.

 Arno Karlan. Man and Mircrobes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1995.

John Kelly. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Devastating Plague of All Times. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Jeffrey Kluger. Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. New York: Putnam, 2005.

 Gina Kolata. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

 Alan M. Kraut. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and "The Immigration Menace." New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Eric Lax. The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Edward Marriott. Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge that Won't Go Away. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.

William H. McNeill. Plagues and People. Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976.

Katherine Ott. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

James T. Patterson. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1987.

 C. J. Peters. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1997.

 Richard Preston. The Hot Zone. New York: Random House, 1994.

 ___. The Cobra Event. New York: Random House, 1997.

 ___. Demon in the Freezer. New York: Random House, 2002.

 Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC.  Atlanta, GA: Turner, 1996.

 Claude Quetel. History of Syphilis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1990.

William Rosen. Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Modern Europe. New York: Viking, 2007.

Charles E. Rosenberg. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. Chicago: Chicago, 1987.

 Frank Ryan, MD. The Forgotten Plague: How The Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won --- And Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 1992, 1993.

         . X Virus: Tracking The New Killer Plagues out of the Present and into the Future. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.

Marc Shell. Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard, 2005.

 Randy Shilts. And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and The AIDs Epidemic. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Robert Sullivan. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Marilyn W. Thompson. The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

 Jonathan B. Tucker. Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

 Abraham Verghese. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story. New York: Vintage, 1994. 

Christopher Wills. Yellow Fever Black Goddess: Co-evolution of  People and Plagues.  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesely, 1996.

 Philip Ziegler. The Black Death. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

 Hans Zinsser. Rats, Lice and History. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.

 Updated 30 January 2005

Hit Counter