Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper is a historian at the University of Oklahoma and the author of the forthcoming Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.

The Atlantic

Not Everyone Can Afford to ‘Learn to Live With’ COVID-19

If history is a guide, infectious diseases exploit inequities not just within societies but between them.
- Kyle Harper
- August 25, 2021
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Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague

Church records from the third century could help identify the disease that nearly killed the empire.
- Kyle Harper
- November 1, 2017

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Kyle Harper

Not Everyone Can Afford to ‘Learn to Live With’ COVID-19

Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague