Polio
by David M. Oshinsky | 
Rats, Lice and History
by Hans Zinsser |
Disease
by Mary Dobson | 
1491
by Charles C. Mann | 
The Great Influenza
by John M. Barry | 
Pox
by Michael Willrich |
The Plague Race
by Edward Marriott | 
1493
by Charles C. Mann | 
Connections
by James Burke | 
The Codebreakers
by David Kahn | 
A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Simon Winchester | 
The Big Oyster
by Mark Kurlansky | 
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
by William Rosen | 
Beyond Uncertainty
by David C. Cassidy | 
Project Orion
by George Dyson |
Defenders of the Truth
by Ullica Segerstrale | 
The Little Ice Age
by Brian Fagan | 
Coal
by Barbara Freese | 
The Calendar
by David Ewing Duncan | 
When Old Technologies Were New
by Carolyn Marvin |
Slave ships brought it to America as far back as 1648-and over the centuries, yellow fever epidemics plagued the United States. Carried along the mighty Mississippi River, it ravaged towns from New Orleans to St. Louis. New York City lost 2,000 lives in one year alone. It even forced the nation's capital to relocate from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.