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A special reading and research project

Links for Information on the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

What is Yellow Fever?
John Edgar Wideman on the Yellow Fever epidemic
PBS- The Yellow Fever Epidemic
Benjamin Rush and Yellow Fever
Kent Museum of Philadelphia
Primary Source Document on the Yellow Fever outbreak
The Diseased City
About the author of An American Plague
Diagram of how Yellow Fever develops

Other books of Interest:

Anderson, Laura Halse. Fever 1793. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002.

Powell, J.H. Bring Out Your Dead-The Great Plague of Yellow Fever on Philadelphia in 1793. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

 

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