The Edge of
EpidemiologyBy Devin Teichrow

Interactive exhibits

The exhibit collection.

Follow an epidemic through time, examine a ship’s spaces, or read the sources behind a historical claim.

A broadside headed Abstract of Quarantine Regulations, with six closely printed columns of instructions for ships.
The paperwork of quarantine. British regulations, 1826. Image source ↗
Research SearchHISTORICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY / RESEARCH SEARCH

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Histsearch

Browse historical epidemiology dossiers with reviewed sources, transparent search strategies, and downloadable research records.

Source links, review status, search dates, editorial notes, and CSV/JSON downloads

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A masked nurse takes a patient’s pulse beside a line of hospital beds on a long open-sided ward.
A nurse takes a patient’s pulse. Walter Reed, c. 1918. Image source ↗
TimelineAMERICAN EPIDEMICS / TIMELINE

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American Epidemic Timeline

A carefully cited timeline of major U.S.-linked epidemics, outbreaks, and public-health turning points.

Cited entries with confidence labels, archival visuals, uncertainty notes, and careful public-health interpretation

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Black-and-white transmission electron micrograph of smallpox virions, including a particle with its internal viral core visible.
Smallpox virions under an electron microscope, 1975. Image source ↗
AtlasPATHOGEN / RESERVOIRS

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Pathogen Atlas

A cited digital exhibit about pathogen origins, reservoirs, transmission ecology, historical spread, and evidentiary uncertainty.

Origin confidence, evidence-type panels, citations, and uncertainty notes

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An 1870 engraving of the large Dreadnought hospital ship moored off Greenwich, with small rowing boats alongside.
A floating hospital. Dreadnought at Greenwich, 1870. Image source ↗
AtlasMARITIME / PORTS

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Maritime Disease Atlas

A cited map-first digital exhibit on ships, ports, quarantine, naval warfare, captivity, trade, migration, and maritime disease ecology.

Case modules with citations, route confidence, burden notes, uncertainty notes, mechanism filters, and guided-tour narrative

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A hand-drawn map of Boston and surrounding waterways, with buildings and entrenchments marked on aged paper.
Boston and its entrenchments. Manuscript map, c. 1775. Image source ↗
AtlasREVOLUTIONARY WAR / COLONIES

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Revolutionary War Disease Atlas

Follow smallpox, troop movements, inoculation orders, and winter encampments through a cited chronological atlas.

Essay-linked historical synthesis

Atlas section
Gloved hands hold a skull during examination of the jaw and teeth in the Varnhem dental research project.
Examining the evidence. Teeth and jaw from Varnhem. Carolina Bertilsson · CC BY 4.0 ↗
AtlasVIKING / NORSE

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Viking Health Atlas

Compare cited archaeological site records, sample sizes, dates, findings, and limits across Viking Age and later Norse material.

Map-based historical synthesis plus linked essays

Atlas section