No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19

The Library of Congress’s John Hessler (Curator of the Kislak collection, and expert in the Geography & Map Division) and Marie Arana (author and Literary Director of the LOC) discuss the sweep of history from the 1500s small pox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to the meticulous work that is being done now to map COVID-19.