Life in the West wasn’t easy. Those who chose to leave the comforts of Back East in favor of the rigors of the West did not make the decision to do so haphazardly. During most of the 19th ...

In the years 1880 to 1920, we literally transformed the health environment,” says David Rosner, a professor of history and ...

Angola has recorded 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to the Health ...

The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...

You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule The spectre of cholera hung over Tchaikovsky's life from his earliest childhood. In the early 19th century most people believed the disease was ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have observed that religion plays an important role in determining inequalities in mortality outcomes before the mortality decline in late 19th century Europe ... Only in the ...