Although 19th-century postal workers were in no danger of contracting yellow fever from perforating or fumigating the mail, that fact, known to us only in hindsight, does not detract from the ...

Alexander Anderson Papers / New-York Historical Society Library In the 18th and early 19th centuries, many European and American medical authorities suspected yellow fever spread through ...

From Native Chickee huts to invention of the first air conditioner, hot, humid Florida has been pivotal in the history of how ...

As new flights connect western Europe and Tbilisi, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the wide-open spaces of the little-visited Javakheti plateau ...

It was named after a Mexican opera singer who died in a yellow fever epidemic that swept through the city in 1883. City residents are very proud of their 19th-century opera house, which was ...

On Wednesday the Queen put on the same Anna Valentine coat she wore for her wedding 20 years ago. So, which other items in ...

But in the early 20th century, philanthropists were already ... whose research led to the discovery of a vaccine for yellow fever, advanced the understanding of cell biology, and assisted the ...

Here is the image, and then here is putting together the blue and the yellow plates ... He grew up in a milieu that was more like 18th or 19th century shtetl life and then went through the ...