The Middle Ground Journal

This is a special summer issue of the journal. Given COVID-19’s prevalence and disruption to lives everywhere, the journal’s editors are dedicating time and space to exploring pandemics and history as well as responses to pandemics and history would be a useful way to give contemplation to a virus’s global impact.

Special Summer Issue: Pandemics in Historical Perspective

Pedagogical and Historical Resources for the Pandemic

“A Good Winter Rain Will Put Everything Right”: The British Government in India’s Response to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Famine

Pandemics, Past and Present: Influenza, COVID-19, Military Hospital Ships in Japan

Artifacts, Virality, and Connection: Social Media and Teaching in the Age of COVID-19

Ideology and Disease: Cholera, Policy and Identity during the Sino-Japanese War

The Viral Game: The Global Football Community’s Response to Epidemics and Pandemics in the Twenty-First Century