Tracking the Russian Influenza

Publications:

E. Thomas Ewing, “La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics during the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana.” Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. Vol. 13, No. 13, May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12632.

 E. Thomas Ewing, “’The Two Diseases Are So Utterly Dissimilar’: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Advance Scholarship in the Global History of Medicine.” Current Research in Digital History, Vol. 1 (2018). George Mason University Center for History and New Media: http://crdh.rrchnm.org/.

E. Thomas Ewing, “’Will It Come Here?’ Using Digital Humanities Tools to Explore Medical Understanding during the Russian Flu Epidemic, 1889-90,” Medical History, Vol. 61, No, 3 (July 2017), pp. 474-477.

E. Thomas Ewing, Veronica Kimmerly and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, “’Look Out for La Grippe’: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Interpret Information Dissemination during the Russian Flu, 1889-1890.” Medical History Vol. 60, Issue 1 (January 2016), pp. 129-131. DOI 10.1017/mdh.2015.84.

E. Thomas Ewing, Ian Hargreaves, Jessica King, Andrew Pregnall, and Tyler Talnagi, “Revealing Data: Using Term Frequency to Chart Influenza Reporting,” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine, November 14, 2018; “Revealing Data: Measuring Mortality during an Epidemic,” Circulating Now, November 15, 2018; “Revealing Data: Close Reading and Textual Analysis as Historical Methods,” Circulating Now, November 16, 2018. (link)

E. Thomas Ewing, Veronica Kimmerly and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson, “Dr. Shrady Says: The 1890 Russian Influenza as a Case Study for Understanding Epidemics in History.” Medical Heritage Library Research Blog, Parts 1, 2, and 3. August September 2016. (link)

Papers

“The Numbers Attacked Have Assumed Alarming Proportions”: Disease Surveillance and the Origins of the “Russian Influenza,” 1889-1890" Paper for the Russian History group at the University of Michigan, April 2022. (link)

"Medical Misinformation during a Pandemic: Text as Data during the Russian Influenza (1889-1890)." Poster for the Text as Data workshop, October 2022. (link)

"Colonial Medicine during a Pandemic: The 1889-1892 Influenza in the Russian Empire." Paper for the Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, December 2023. (link)

"The Influenza Epidemic in the Caucasus." Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, March 2024 (link)

"A Frightful Increase of Mortality: Statistics in Action during the 1889-1893 Influenza Epidemic in New York City." Presentation for the Science, Technology, and Society Program, November 2023. (link)