In the show, a young Cassandra (Synnøve Karlsen) was betrothed to Tom Fowle (Calam Lynch), but the modest curate tragically perished at sea while on a journey to amass his fortune. Devastated, ...

Walk around Shreveport’s historic Oakland Cemetery, the city’s oldest cemetery established in 1847 as City Cemetery, and many ...

The 174-year-old Cedar Grove Cemetery, the final resting place of whaling captains, politicians and industrialists — as well as early immigrants to the city, yellow fever victims and the more recently ...

The Leidenfrost effect, also called the "mercury ball test", is a technique used to make sure your pan is hot enough for cooking.

In the book, Byerly, who specialises in the history of military medicine, talks about mosquito-borne diseases, such as yellow fever, and public health issues, such as sanitation. “At the time of his ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...

Major disease outbreaks have transformed how people live and how to mitigate the fear of co-existing with a deadly infection. Pandemics have left an imprint in history, as global public ...

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...

Jesmyn Ward's fourth novel follows Annis, a young, enslaved woman, on her journey through the underworld of the American ...