Media coverage
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Media coverage
Title Interview with Author, Robert Watson | America's First Plague | Between The Covers Summer Series Media name/outlet South Florida PBS Duration/Length/Size 8:52 Country/Territory United States Date 7/6/23 Description The year: 1793. The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia. For 3 long months yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes let loose from a ship from Africa, ravaged the eastern seaboard.
Author, Robert Watson talks about his new book that offers the definitive telling of this long-forgotten crisis, capturing the wave of fear that swept across the fledgling republic, and the numerous unintended but far-reaching consequences.Producer/Author Anne Bocock URL https://youtu.be/FWKhdkUcn-c?feature=shared Persons Robert P. Watson