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Episode 29: Episode 29: History of Pandemics with Ph.D. holder Jim Ambuske
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Jim Ambuske, Ph.D., leads the Center for Digital History at the Washington Library. A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World, Ambuske graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law, Ambuske co-directed the 1828 Catalogue Project and the Scottish Court of Session Project. He discusses about the history of pandemics. Books recommended are: Elizabeth Feen, Pox American: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2002); John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history (2004); and Stephen Fried, Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor who Became a Founding Father (2018).
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