Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America exhibit

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Promotional image for Yellow Fever exhibit

When

8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Oct. 14 – Nov. 23, 2024

The Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America traveling exhibition and companion website explore how party politics shaped the response to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. 

While citizens confronted yellow fever in the absence of an effective cure or consensus about the origins of the disease, medical professionals, early political parties, and some individuals advanced their respective agendas. As a result, Philadelphia’s sick and dying received medical care informed as much by politics as by the best available science.

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More information

Politics of Yellow Fever includes an education component with a K-12 lesson plan and a university module, and a digital gallery that features a curated selection of fully digitized items from the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which are also available in their entirety in NLM Digital Collections.

The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition, guest curated by public historian Ashley Bowen, PhD., and the companion website.

Contacts

Jerry Flanary, Coordinator, Operations & Facilities