“Quarantine” used to refer to the 40 days a ship suspected of carrying a contagious disease was held in offshore isolation. Now it’s an aggresive tool to stop the spread of disease in ...

Exploring the history of quarantine hotels reveals ambivalences and inequities that continue to fuel debates over their effectiveness in the era of COVID-19. Hotels make sense ...

British expat David Young at home in Málaga, Spain, on June 21. Tens of thousands of British citizens overseas haven’t been able to visit friends and family in the U.K. because of quarantine ...

Melissa Block speaks with Howard Markel of University of Michigan about the history of medical quarantine.

I picked up Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, by journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, with a degree of dread. Who wants to remain, even intellectually, in that ...

“Until Proven Safe,” by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, is about the lifesaving measure that has also been abused for political purposes over the centuries.

During WW I, authorities incarcerated 30,000 prostitutes in an effort to curb venereal disease. Learn more about the history of quarantines.

NL · Apocalypse Then A brief history of bubbling: Why quarantine habits are much older than you might think Since March, we've been slowly adapting to a new way of living.

Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through an online gallery called Dispatches from Quarantine.

“Quarantine” used to refer to the 40 days a ship suspected of carrying a contagious disease was held in offshore isolation. Now it’s an aggresive tool to stop the spread of disease in ...