December 13, American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Washington D. C. (In-person and Zoom)
December 15, New York State Library, Albany (Zoom)
January 5-8, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, “Covid-19 in Context” (In-Person)
January 26, Marblehead Museum, Marblehead, MA (249th anniversary of the burning of Essex Hospital) (Zoom)
January 28, 6:50 pm American History TV, C-SPAN2
February 16, The Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, Saginaw, MI (In-person)
February 21, Revolution 250 Podcast, Facebook Live event 9am EST
February 27, Guest on the Michael Medved Show
March 9, Health, Environment and Common Good in Contemporary America Workshop, University of Toulouse
March 17, “Public Health and Private Choice: Vaccination in the Early United States,” Seminar, Atelier Transatlantique d’Histoire Intellectuelle et Politique, 2-5pm, Université de Toulouse
March 30, 9am EST The Sound of Ideas, 89.7 WKSU/WCPN NPR Cleveland, Ohio
August 10, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA
August, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego
More to come!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and, since our interview it was named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Our conversation gives an excellent look into the long process of writing this book, and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed talking with Andrew.
The American Revolution happened in the midst of a smallpox epidemic. In one of the timeliest history books of the publishing season, historian Andrew Wehrman visits the podcast to talk about what the patriots of the American Revolution and the founding fathers thought about public health.
We go back to the original days of "Don't Tread On Me" with the author, for an exploration of public health politics at the dawn of the republic. The story is told by historian Andrew Wehrman in the book The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution.
Joining me to help us learn more about smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution is Dr. Andrew M. Wehrman, Associate professor of history at Central Michigan University, and author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution.
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