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Yellow Fever and Church Attendance
byJohn Adams was certain he made a mistake by going to church. Philadelphia’s yellow fever outbreak only ended in November 1793. On Sunday, December…
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Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefits of Epidemics
byAn epidemic that violently attacks public health—that sickens and takes lives; that cripples our economy; that forces us into our homes; that turns cities…
This Week on Dispatches: Brian Patrick O’Malley on Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Brian Patrick O’Malley on the social and medical response to the Yellow Fever epidemic that ravaged…