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Updated with entries through 2016, the timeline reflects the history of the domestic epidemic from its origins in illness, fear, and death to our present, hope-filled years.

A vase that's now owned by British Museum which is dated back to the 18th Century found in the Thebes necropolis.

This small section of a tomb wall art records the history of the deceased with that tomb.

The rat cap shown is a real rat cap worn by an unnamed freshman in the 1930's.

First-floor plan of the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas

Aerial view of the Mount Carmel compound where the Branch Davidians led by David Koresh lived

A member of the US Army sprays disinfectant over the bodies of Jonestown victims before placing them into plastic body bags for removal to Georgetown

This is a 2 page document paired with a preamble which was written in order to establish the University of Georgia, a public university.

This document lists many of the Massachusetts Colony laws that were worthy of execution if broken. Witchcraft is listed as the second offense.

This 1692 petition for bail was written by ten women who were unlawfully held in the Ipswich Jail for several months during the Salem Witch Trials.