Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black ...

But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our ...

This year marks five years since the COVID pandemic began. Maybe forcing ourselves to go back, to remember, can remind us of the dignity and kindness we owe one another, writes.

Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them. Credit...Katherine Lam Supported by By Gina Kolata Five ...

Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...

Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In a quick succession of events, schools and businesses shut down, lockdowns were put in place, travel ...

In the pivotal book The Great Influenza, historian John Barry lays out the conditions that primed the population of the U.S. that year for one of the worst plagues in history and acted like so ...

Five years after the pandemic started, we look back at some of the most memorable photos that were taken during the global ...

On this date in Texas history, the winter and spring seasons at Texas abruptly ended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But after years of discussion, there remains no binding agreement. As COVID was (partly due to advances in technology) the most intensively studied pandemic in human history, we have a unique resource ...

Science writer Laura Spinney told me that one reason we forget pandemics is, paradoxically, because they’re so all-encompassing. Her book “Pale Rider” is a history of the 1918 flu ...

The pandemic left empty spaces everywhere as people ... I needed to step back and make an image that captured a specific moment in history. Without context, it was just another baseball game.” ...