Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
On April 14, 1721, Judge Samuel Sewall was handed a letter from a Capt. Tuthill, informing him that the ship Swan Anna...
In April of 1777, a 48-year-old doctor named Edward Augustus Holyoke made out his will and then traveled from his home in...