{"id":8774,"date":"2020-04-27T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/06\/pandemic-history\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:33:08","slug":"pandemic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/pandemic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How Greenville endured pandemic and quarantine in the early 1900s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Tollison &#8217;99, Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar at Furman University, has written a commentary about epidemics and their impact over the last century. She notes that in a 15-year span in the early 20th century, Furman students were quarantined six different times for various illnesses from measles to Spanish Flu, which globally, claimed an estimated 50 million lives.<\/p>\n<p>For this current COVID-19 epidemic, she is working with her history students to create a pandemic archive to be placed in Furman&#8217;s archives, including photos, media accounts, reflections and journals. The purpose? In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/04\/26\/opinion-how-greenville-endured-pandemic-quarantine-early-1900-s\/3002472001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong>, Tollison writes, &#8220;When that future pandemic occurs, we want those who follow us to have materials that will inform who we were and how we prevailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Tollison &#8217;99, Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar at Furman University, has written a commentary about epidemics and their impact over the last century. She notes that in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}