Pandemic History

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Some of My Easter Reading in Order of Publication Date

• MAR 23, 2020 The Atlantic
  ​What the Great Plague of Athens Can Teach Us Now
  ​Disease changed the course of the war, and shaped the peace that came afterward, planting the seeds that would destroy Athenian democracy.
• MAR 27, 2020 History.com
  How 5 of History's Worst Pandemics Finally Ended
  While some of the earliest pandemics faded by wiping out parts of the population, medical and public health initiatives were able to halt the spread of other diseases.
• MAR 27, 2020 New York Times
  The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response​
  Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.
• APR 6, 2020 The New Yorker
  The Truth About Isaac Newton’s Productive Plague
  The idea that the bubonic plague woke the brilliance in Isaac Newton is both wrong and misleading.
• APR 10, 2020 Vanity Fair
  ​The Art of Making Art About a Plague
  ​How will coronavirus inspire writers, filmmakers, and other creatives? Expect more stories about inequality—and maybe the end of superhero mania
• APR 10, 2020 Vox.com
  Coronavirus is not just a tragedy. It’s an opportunity to build a better world.
  Coronavirus is a great moral drama taking place before our eyes. And the script has not yet been written.

​The Search For Nijinsky's Rite of Spring (2004 Documentary)

​A 2004 documentary on Millicent Hodson's and Kenneth Archer's attempts to recreate the original choreography by Vasclav Nijinsky and original sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the original production in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The rite of spring. The full reconstructed ballet, Sacre du printemps = The rite of spring : pictures of pagan Russia in two acts (Joffrey Ballet ; Orchestra of the National Theatre, Prague ; Allan Lewis, conductor) follows the documentary.