"Bloom's skillfully crafted analysis provides a fascinating perspective on the nineteenth century's confused response to a terrifying malady, illuminating the p

The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878—a disaster that caus

Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.

In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horror

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to aba