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KPL Podcast August 2025 Week 1 with Special Guest Edna Bonhomme

August 01, 2025 • Kirkwood Public Library • Episode 287

This week on the KPL Podcast, we explore A History of the World in Six Plagues with historian Edna Bonhomme. Through riveting storytelling and rigorous research, Bonhomme traces the devastating impact of pandemics across centuries and continents—from Port-au-Prince to plantation-era America—revealing how disease and systemic inequality have long gone hand in hand. Don’t miss this powerful look at the hidden connections between contagion and injustice.