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Tomorrow (23 April 2020), the Library of Congress will be livestreaming No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19<\/em><\/a>, in which John Hessler and Marie Arana will \u201cdiscuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to the meticulous work that is being done now to map COVID-19.\u201d To be streamed on the Library\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> and YouTube channel<\/a> at 7 PM EDT. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow (23 April 2020), the Library of Congress will be livestreaming No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19, in which John Hessler and Marie Arana will \u201cdiscuss the sweep of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,35],"tags":[1413,1426,228,1444,66,1443,1445],"class_list":["post-1788783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","category-history","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-epidemics","tag-library-of-congress","tag-livestream","tag-pandemics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788917,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/pandemic-mapping-and-posterity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788783,"position":0},"title":"Pandemic Mapping and Posterity","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 June 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"The flurry of COVID-19 maps that have emerged in the first half of this year will be something that future cartographers and librarians will look back on, both in terms of historical records that need preserving, which is the subject of this CityLab interview with Library of Congress map librarian\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1790014,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/pandemic-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788783,"position":1},"title":"Pandemic Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 January 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Alejandro Polanco\u2019s latest Kickstarter project is the Pandemic Atlas. 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