black plague

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Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote that in the wake of the Black Plague, survivors found themselves “neither destroyed nor improved,” and we are still in the process of identifying our change through negative definitions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2022

As briefly mentioned earlier, the Black Plague drew attention to how medieval practitioners of medicine usually had no idea what they were doing.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

Many historians believe the first wave of the Black Plague in Europe originated in the Marseille port.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2020

In 1918, a novel strand of influenza killed more people than the 14th century’s Black Plague.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2020

Declaration eyeballed me, and in the same tone of voice she would have used to say, The Black Plague?, she said, “Marbles?”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles