Dressing for an Edwardian Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918
byAs the influenza pandemic, known colloquially as “la grippe” or the Spanish Flu, spread across the globe, governments and health officials immediately began to…
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American Colonial Missionaries in the Philippines
byOnce upon a time, Catholic-Protestant strife scorched Europe. In the seventeenth century, for example, about eight million people died in the Thirty Years War,…
Raise the Red Flag: Cholera in Colonial Manila
byMy upcoming novella Tempting Hymn will be the second in my series to mention the 1902 cholera epidemic in the Philippines. The book’s hero,…