There are 4 article(s) tagged Yellow fever:

• June 2021

  • Opinion: Angels are and have been with us

    What made them angels was the sacrifice they made expecting no recognition at all.

    By Dan Conaway June 25, 2021

• August 2020

  • Six months in, we’re all living in ‘COVID World’

    The Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 in Memphis spawned new words, such as "Stranger Fever," and changed people's thoughts and actions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its "social distancing" and "new normal" is not so different. History has provided an echo. 

    By Don Wade August 18, 2020

• April 2020

  • 140 years after yellow fever, surprisingly little has changed

    It was an early spring that year too – 1878 – as Mardi Gras celebrations in Memphis ended and news of yellow fever erupted. Even though the outbreak was in another country, ship trade made everyone our neighbor. And, Memphis was a major hub, webbed by train tracks and edged by riverboats.

    By Molly Crosby April 09, 2020

• November 2019

  • Memphis that almost wasn’t

    "Memphis Reborn," a new book about Memphis in the 1880s, begins with the city "at its absolute low point."

    By Jill Johnson Piper November 10, 2019