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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">The History Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, March 3 at 3:00PM (PST). We had agreed at our fall meeting that we would devote a meeting to an exploration of pandemics in history.

 We are delighted that Professor Nancy McLoughlin will join us to discuss the medieval plague (and perhaps inspire you to explore this topic in greater depth in the course that Professor McLoughlin will teach in the Spring quarter).</span></div>

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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Professor McLoughlin has provided the following brief materials for the discussion:</span></div>

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<li><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Monica H. Green, “</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(33, 33, 33)">How a Microbe Becomes a Pandemic: A New Story of the Black Death,” </span><span style="margin:0px;font-style:italic;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;color:rgb(33, 33, 33)">Lancet

 Microbe </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(33, 33, 33)">1, no. 8 (December 2020), e311-e312, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(4, 99, 192)"><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30176-2/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30176-2/fulltext</a> </span><br>

</span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">16 Dec 2020: Monica H. Green interviewed for AHR Interviews by John McNeill, </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(5, 99, 193)"><a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/ahrinterview/id/17189288" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/ahrinterview/id/17189288</a> </span></li><li>From the Editor’s Desk: Journal of the Plague Year, <span style="margin:0px;font-style:italic;font-family:"Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(42, 42, 42);box-sizing:border-box">The American Historical Review</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(42, 42, 42)">,

 Volume 125, Issue 5, December 2020, Pages xvi–xix, </span><font color="#006FB7" face="Source Sans Pro,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa523" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa523</a></span></font></li></ol>

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<span style="margin:0px">Professor Joan Malczewski</span></div>

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