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May 21, 2026, 2:23 pm46 ptsThis is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In February 1896, when the germ theory of disease was still fairly new, an Atlantic writer wondered whether the “good old-fashioned hand-shake” would survive into…
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