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Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …

Progressive-Era reformers claimed typhoid, a waterborne disease, was more prevalent in
cities with private water companies than in cities with public water companies. This article …

Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, war, and abolition. Using a new dataset on
slave sales, we examine connections between news and slave prices for the period 1856 …

The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and
American history. In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho …

The belief that West and Central Africans and their descendants in the New World enjoy an
innate immunity or resistance to yellow fever persists in the writings of many historians. They …

Henry David Thoreau's body figured centrally in his efforts to immerse himself in the world
beyond his skin. Nowhere did he express this wish more strongly than in a journal entry of …

Background To better understand the distribution of typhoid outbreaks in Washington, DC,
the US Public Health Service (PHS) conducted four investigations of typhoid fever. These …

This paper examines the effects of age, occupation, population size of place of residence,
nativity, and household wealth on the disease and mortality experiences of Union army …

The objective of this study is to gain more comprehensive knowledge about social inequality
in mortality in pre-industrial periods. With this aim, we have reconstructed the life courses of …