Historian Edna Bonhomme talks to Linda Villarosa about her latest book,&nbsp;A History of the World in Six Plagues.

Library Talks: Edna Bonhomme with Linda Villarosa, ‘A History of the World in Six Plagues’

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

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In this episode of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nypl.org/blog/all?channel=760" rel="nofollow">Library Talks</a>, Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme sits down with fellow writer Linda Villarosa to discuss her latest book, A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19. Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease.