Opinion: Memphis, are you still thinking about the Roman Empire (and Yellow Fever)?
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Amanda Gaggioli
Amanda Gaggioli is a professor at the University of Memphis specializing in ancient and premodern history.
Guest Columnist
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham is a professor at the University of Memphis specializing in ancient and premodern history.
“Historian Kyle Harper is coming to the University of Memphis to ask a chilling question: are we, like the Romans, on the cusp of societal collapse — or even mass extinction?”
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