Atlas
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Maritime Disease Atlas
A darker, map-forward atlas of shipboard disease ecology, ports, vectors, and the movement constraints of life at sea.
Historical desk
Disease, empire, war, routes, and historical epidemiology
This section pulls the history-facing writing and atlas work together so it can be browsed as a coherent body of work.
Atlases
Historical map projects
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Revolutionary War Disease Atlas
A historical epidemiology section focused on colonial and Revolutionary-era disease ecology, troop movement, and the public-health constraints around the founding period.
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Viking Health Atlas
A Norse-world disease and health map that ties Greenland, Vinland, settlement ecology, and pre-Columbian contact arguments into one visual surface.
Essays
History-facing published work
May 19, 2026
Essay
Ebola in DRC and Uganda: Outbreak Update
Live outbreak notes on Ebola virus disease in DRC and Uganda, with what is confirmed, what remains uncertain, and why regional spread matters.
May 13, 2026
Essay
Korean War Hantavirus: Hemorrhagic Fever History
How Korean War trench warfare, rodent ecology, and Hantaan virus turned a mysterious military outbreak into hantavirus history.
May 4, 2026
Essay
MV Hondius Hantavirus Outbreak: What We Know
A source-first guide to the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak, Andes virus, cruise-ship exposure, travel risk, and what investigators could know.
April 25, 2026
Essay
Ancient DNA and Disease Selection in West Eurasia
How ancient DNA, infectious disease pressure, immunity, and changing environments help explain genomic selection in West Eurasian populations.
April 11, 2026
Essay
Big Epidemiology: Disease at Civilization Scale
A framework essay for thinking about disease across deep time, infrastructure, migration, ecology, empire, and the systems civilizations build.
April 4, 2026
Essay
1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever: America’s First Epidemic Crisis
The 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic as an early American public-health crisis shaped by urban ecology, politics, race, and mosquito-borne disease.
April 1, 2026
Essay
Did Vikings Spread Plague Across the North Sea?
A careful look at Viking movement, North Sea disease ecology, plague evidence, Norse voyages, and the limits of reconstructing medieval pathogen spread.
March 27, 2026
Essay
Tuberculosis and the Fragility of Public Health
A Pathogen Dispatch essay on tuberculosis, public-health capacity, drug resistance, airborne transmission, and why old diseases keep returning.
March 21, 2026
Essay
Disease in the American Revolutionary War: Who Died of What?
Disease mortality in the American Revolutionary War, including battle deaths, smallpox, camp disease, military medicine, and eighteenth-century survival.
March 16, 2026
Essay
Disease on the Oregon Trail: Cholera, Dysentery, and Death
Disease on the Oregon Trail, from cholera and dysentery to overland migration, sanitation, graves, and nineteenth-century westward travel.
March 7, 2026
Essay
Yellow Fever and Napoleon’s American Empire
How yellow fever, mosquitoes, Saint-Domingue, military failure, and disease ecology helped destroy Napoleon’s North American empire plans.
February 27, 2026
Essay
Smallpox and the American Revolution
How smallpox threatened the American Revolution, why inoculation mattered, and how disease shaped military survival during the founding war.