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Alfred W. Crosby

Alfred W. Crosby (1931 – 2018), Professor Emeritus of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, and the University of Helsinki, was the author of nine books, including America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Several of his honors include being appointed Fulbright Bicentennial Professor, and his appointment as Academician by Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari.

Articles by this Author

A shot fired in the last days of the Civil War has kept its power to wound
The mysterious diseases that nearly wiped out the Indians of New England were the work of the Christian God — or so both Pilgrims and Indians believed.