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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

A book by Alfred W. Crosby.

An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

A book by Jim Murphy.

Armies of Pestilence : The Effects of Pandemics on History

A book by R. S.Bray.

Ayrshire Roots - Plagues and Epidemics

Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

A book by J. H. Powell.

Bubonic plague hits San Francisco 1900 - 1909

Cholera in the 19th Century

Scotland. Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.

Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence

A book by George C. Kohn (hardback).

Epidemic Disease in London

From the Institute of Historical Research.

Epidemics

Epidemics in Maryland (1731-1870)

Epidemics in the USA 1657 - 1819

Epidemics in US 1628-1918

Families of the 1918 Pandemic

This data set shows the victims of the 1918 pandemic and their families in FamilySearch Family Tree.

Genealogy Quest - American Epidemics

Genealogy: Beyond the BMD: It's Epidemic!

Historical Epidemics

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

History of Epidemics and Plagues

This site focuses on the medical causes and transmission mechanics of epidemics but does give some interesting historical background.

Influenza Encyclopedia

From the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine. An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, of the approximately 50 million deaths the disease caused worldwide. The collection includes more than 16,000 digitized documents: correspondence, newspaper accounts, military records, diaries, photographs, and more.

List of epidemics (Wikipedia)