The Horror of Smallpox! Disease and Film Noir
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6F9O9FGco Diamond smuggling! Disease! Murder! These and more are the subject of the 1950 film noir The Killer That Stalked New York. The film follows Shelia Bennet, one of a...
View ArticleSmallpox and Shaping Society, Part 1
What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition...
View ArticleSmallpox and Shaping Society, Part 2
What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition...
View ArticleSmallpox and Shaping Society, Part 3
What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition...
View ArticleWhat Typhoid Mary Meant In 19th-Century New York
On March 27, 1915, Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, was permanently quarantined at this hospital on North Brother Island. From 1900 until her second quarantine in 1915, she was presumed to have...
View ArticleAIDS in New York: An Interview with Jean Ashton
This week we sat down with New-York Historical’s Senior Director of Resources and Programs Jean Ashton to discuss her book, AIDS in New York: The First Five Years. The book shares its name with the...
View ArticleA Tomahawk With A Past
Many objects in the Luce Center, where nearly 40,000 objects from the New-York Historical Society’s permanent collection are displayed, are beautiful to look at. But they are also intriguing portals...
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