Virtual Lecture To Highlight Diseases And Their Historical Effects

Press release from the Town of Leesburg:

05/03/2021

Leesburg, VA (May 3, 2021) – Andrew Jampoler will present his virtual lecture “Disease in History” on Wednesday May 19 at 1 p.m.

The current pandemic has forced us to relive and rethink the impact of disease on history. Before the age of modern medicine, lethal epidemics and fatal disease shaped human history as much—arguably more—than did geography, the acts of great men and women, and the events of politics and wars.

Learn how plague, influenza, yellow fever, and small pox (as well as the “great pox,” syphilis), and especially cholera, powerfully changed the direction of time, as the Covid-19 virus is doing again.

Pre-registration is required for this event. Please call 703-737-7195, email balchlib@leesburgva.gov, or register online.

Andrew Jampoler is an alumnus of Columbia College and the School of International and Public Affairs, both of Columbia University, in New York City, and of the US State Department Foreign Service Institute’s School of Language Study. While in the US Navy, Andy served on the personal staffs of the chief of naval operations, the secretary of defense, and the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, and also on the ground in Vietnam. Jampoler has been researching and writing non-fiction books for more than twenty years.

Media Contact:
Leah Kosin
Assistant Public Information Officer
lkosin@leesburgva.gov
703-771-2781

This press release was produced by the Town of Leesburg. The views expressed are the author's own.