Andrew Wehrman: @profwehrman.bsky.social
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Historian at CMU. Author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (JHU Press, 2022), “Expert in old-timey vaccines”
Mt Pleasant, MI
Joined December 2012
THRILLED and honored that my little ol’ book The Contagion of Liberty has been named one of the five finalists for the Los Angeles Times book prize for history!
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The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes recognize works in 12 categories, with winners to be announced at USC in person on April 21. James Ellroy will receive a lifetime achievement prize.
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Not only did the Revolutionary Americans support inoculation (and later vaccination), they claimed inoculation to have been a proud American invention up there with Franklin's lightning rod. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health and defunding scientific research is an insult
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I will be talking about the United State's 225 year streak of support for vaccination. When Thomas Jefferson first heard of it months before being inaugurated the 3rd President in December 1800 and wrote "every friend of humanity must look with pleasure on this discovery.".
Wishing you a fantastic evening OAH speaker Andrew Wehrman on your lecture, America's First Vaccinators, @CMUniversity. We're proud to have historians like you. Looking to bring a dynamic speaker to your campus? The OAH DLP connects you with scholars:
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Tennessee Families for Vaccines gave away copies of my book to legislators yesterday as they declared that "protecting public health is patriotic!" How awesome is that?! I hope it makes a difference! . The US has been pro-vaccination since its founding. Let's not change it.
Met with TN Families for Vaccines today, they brought me this cool book. Vaccines save lives and I believe in science! Let’s not bring back the iron lung, please.
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Retweeting this 🧵about the damage that can be done simply by legitimizing an anti-vaccination huckster and allowing him to gain a bigger audience.
What harm can be done by a scientist or public health official agreeing to debate an anti-vaccination huckster? It's not just a thought execise. The damage has been done before. Let's look at Minnesota's "Vaccination Debate" of 1902. 1/.
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RT @doritmi: Kennedy claims he's a science person after:.A. Ignoring much of the data about thimerosal and including junk science in his th….
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I'm looking forward to giving the Coy James Lecture in American History at Albion College on Monday Jan. 27! Come hear me speak on the centrality of inoculation and public health to the founding of the United States.
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RT @DrWDNettleton: In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water. #Fluoridation #Gra….
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Not to be forgotten, the women 65+ who seem to be turning hard toward Kamala are the ones who have most witnessed the harms caused by Covid and are by percentage the most vaccinated in the country. Trump’s anti-public health platform is anathema for this group.
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An element of this election that has been understated nationally is that in 2020 Trump was running a pro-vaccination campaign. There was hope the Covid vaccine was coming soon. In 2024 with RFK Jr., he’s running an anti-vaccination campaign, the first of its kind in U.S. history.
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RT @jenkatesdc: "Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases o….
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RT @dr_cdeutsch: @USNatArchives please don't adopt ai llm tools! Doing so is literally the death of history and the death of the archives.….
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RT @doritmi: The Missing Information in Anti-Vaccine Propaganda: Anti-vaccine activists do not only overstate and even invent vaccine risks….
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RT @charles_gaba: Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012. *before* the ACA's major provisi….
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RT @charles_gaba: 🧵📣 THE DEAD POOL: Since @JDVance wants to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk abo….
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I've spent the past couple of weeks up to my ears in 2025 annual healthcare policy rate filing analysis, so I haven't gotten around to addressing JD Vance's recent appearance on NBC in which he
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RT @AdamJaksa: .@ZachCMU is in the @tigers lineup today! . Mckinstry’s the first @CMUBaseball player to compete in the @MLB playoffs since….
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RT @CmichSPSJPS: Constitution Day Speaker - Laura Edwards."The Constitution and the Reconstruction of Rights after the Civil War" on Friday….
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RT @PeterHotez: 1/n Tomorrow or soon, I will do a Tweet X thread on how the antivaccine, health & wellness, nutrition supplements industrie….
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RT @umichvoter: University of Michigan is putting voting info and early voting details on coffee sleeves. They are just killing on this fro….
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