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Example Topics
- The Antonine Plague (Roman Empire, ca. 165-180 C.E.)
- The Cyprian Plague (Roman Empire, ca. 250-270 C.E.)
- Mexica (Aztec) Empire Smallpox Epidemic, ca. 1519-21.
- The London Plague of 1664-65
- The Great Plague of the Late Ming Dynasty (China, 1643)
- The New England Epidemics of 1616-19
- North American Smallpox Epidemic of 1721
- Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (North America)
- First Asiatic Cholera Epidemic (India, ca. 1817)
- The Third Bubonic Plague Epidemic (Asia, ca. 1890s)
- 1924-25 Minnesota Smallpox Epidemic
- Hantavirus Epidemic (US Southwest, 1993)
- Haitian Cholera Epidemic of 2010
- Ebola Epidemic (West Africa, 2014-16)
- Zika Virus Epidemic (Brazil and elsewhere, 2015)
Best Bets: Medical/Biological Research
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A very powerful and varied database. Use the "citation" feature to check for new citing authors. Coverage from 1900 to present.
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowArticles from scholarly and professional journals, books, dissertations, standards of practice, audiovisuals, and other materials in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and related disciplines. Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1937-present.
- More Biology DatabasesLinks to all St. Olaf databases which include content relevant to biology research.
Best Bets: Historical Research
Note that many of these databases cover specific time periods and regions of the world; if you need help identifying appropriate databases or finding contemporary accounts of your pandemic, talk to your librarians!
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly journals articles in many disciplines. Dates of coverage vary by title, typically from the journal's first issue (sometimes in the eighteenth century or earlier) through about five years ago.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal articles, magazine articles, books, and dissertations on US and Canadian history and culture from prehistory to the contemporary period. Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1964-present.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal articles, magazine articles, books, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the contemporary period. Excludes North American history (which is covered in the companion database America: History & Life). Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1955-present.
- Annee Philologique This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and conference papers in classical studies, on the history, culture, languages, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
- More St. Olaf History DatabasesA list of all St. Olaf history databases.
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