Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was the largest in the history of the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 4000 people. In late summer, as the number of deaths began to climb ...

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the ... 730 dead New York City, which in 1793 had turned away refugees from the epidemic in Philadelphia, suffered its own epidemic two summers later.

George Washington's second inauguration took place in Philadelphia in March 1793. Six months later, yellow fever had ripped through America's capital city, taking 5,000 lives. How did the Founding ...

“I write about yellow fever by day and worry about COVID-19 ... when the coronavirus epidemic broke out. Now she’s seeing parallels between what happened in the South and her own experiences ...