Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America
A Philadelphia Story - Mount Vernon Magazine
In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit the city hard, and sent George Washington and the federal government packing.
1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic | Museum of American Finance
One person who did not flee in time to avoid the infection was Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who caught the fever in early September. His wife was also ...
Major American Epidemics of Yellow Fever (1793-1905) - PBS
This outbreak killed about 10% of the city's population, and thousands more fled, including an infected Alexander Hamilton and his wife. Dr. Benjamin Rush, who ...
NLM Exhibit Archive - National Library of Medicine Traveling Exhibit
Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America ... In 1793, yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia. Citizens confronted the epidemic in the ...
Americans Have Always Politicized Public Health
Benjamin Rush and Alexander Hamilton came down on different sides of a bitter debate about Philadelphia's Yellow Fever epidemic.
From Hamilton to Trump: The Dueling Nature of Pandemic Politics
The year was 1793. The disease was yellow fever. And the man cured by unorthodox medicine was Alexander Hamilton. Once healthy, Hamilton ...
Politics of Pandemics Panel Discussion - Campus Link
Part of the National Library of Medicine “Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America” exhibit, this panel will feature three esteemed speakers:.
When the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793 Sent the Wealthy Fleeing ...
As his letter indicates, Rush enlisted members of Philadelphia's free African-American community to treat many of the fever's victims as well as ...
Epidemic in Philadelphia | American Experience | Official Site - PBS
... Alexander Hamilton. ... On August 21, he told Mayor Matthew Clarkson that unsanitary conditions in the bustling city were causing a yellow fever epidemic.
We've Been Here Before | Rice Magazine | Office of Public Affairs
How Americans responded to yellow fever in 1793 was deeply political. Roughly 20,000 people fled Philadelphia, a city of 50,000, including most of the ...
Yesterday marked... - Gumberg Library at Duquesne University
Yesterday marked the exciting kickoff of the National Library of Medicine's exhibit, Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America! A big...
History of Medicine: Data Science and Yellow Fever
The Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine curated a new exhibit titled, Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander ...
Yellow Fever Archives - Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas
Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America ... Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. “A new order of things is rising in medicine, as well...
Alexander Hamilton - Wikipedia
His ideas are credited with laying the foundation for American government and finance. ... Lavien contracted yellow fever and died on February 19, 1768, leaving ...
Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America - Pinterest
This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine considers how science and politics helped determine the response to the 1793 yellow fever ...
The Federal Gazette's Role in Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic ...
24, 1793,. Harold Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton(New York, 1969), 15:373-76. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Vol. CXX, No. 4 ...
National “Yellow Fever” exhibit inspires New College students
Amid heightened concerns about the Coronavirus, a traveling national exhibit called “Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America” ...
How politics infected America's first epidemic and cost lives - The Hill
“With extreme concern I receive the expression of your apprehensions that you are in the first stages of the prevailing fever,” President George ...
Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793
... President Washington and other members of the federal government, to flee to the countryside. This document, from the papers of Secretary of War Henry Knox ...
Teaching with Primary Sources: Yellow Fever in the 18th Century ...
Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America (digitized primary sources and teaching modules from the U.S. National Library of ...