On the Front Lines of New York City’s Yellow Fever Epidemics
- This event already took place in April 2025
- Webinar
Event Details
- Type
- Other Tri-Institutional Events
- Speaker(s)
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Carolyn Eastman, Ph.D., professor of history, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Speaker bio(s)
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Carolyn Eastman is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, book review editor for the William and Mary Quarterly, and president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). She is the author of the prizewinning A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution (2009), and The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity (2021), the latter of which received the SHEAR James Bradford Best Biography prize and the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction. She is developing a book on Black and white New Yorkers’ experiences with the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s, seeking to understand how the disease changed people’s lives as well as the city itself.
- Open to
- Public
- Host
- The Heberden Society
- Phone
- (212) 746-6072
- Sponsor
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Sana Masood
(212) 746-6072
sam4074@med.cornell.edu - Notes
- This is a hybrid event, open to the public