By Kevin Wolf   In our current days of social distancing, worries, and sickness or deaths from COVID-19, the past can be instructive, but how much do we learn from history? Our memories seem to be short and society often has to reinvent what we once learned. A good place to start relearning about pandemics is two excellent books; one about a specific plague in a specific location and the other a more general learning tool. In The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Rat Hunt), Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke (illustrator) use… Read More