epidemic disease

2

Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, Postwar Politics (>1783), Primary Sources May 14, 2020 May 11, 2020

Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefits of Epidemics

by Geoff Smock

An epidemic that violently attacks public health—that sickens and takes lives; that cripples our economy; that forces us into our homes; that turns cities…

Features, Illness and Disease, Interviews April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Brian Patrick O’Malley on Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic

by Editors

On 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…

Latest Comments

1. Barbara Zinn Top 10 Facts About British Soldiers

Thank you for your contribution to this site: Journal of the American Revolution. I'm passing this information down to my granddaughters. It is especially important now during this time in…
2. Dayne Rugh A “Truly Noble” Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut

Thank you for your comment, Pip. Arnold is always a fascinating topic of discussion though I will clarify that not one person is ever "evil from the beginning" - it…
3. Steve Darley A “Truly Noble” Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut

What is the specific source of the Caulkins Information? Also the destruction of the house in 1853? Would also appreciate seeing the records on the Arnold House in the records…