316 Kathryn Olivarius, Yellow Fever, Immunity, & Early New Orleans
Publisher |
Airwave Media
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Interview
Society & Culture
USA
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History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Nov 23, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:47:18

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included the important port city of New Orleans. But the United States did not just acquire the city’s land, peoples, and wealth– the American government also inherited the city’s Yellow Fever problem.  

Kathryn Olivarius, an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, leads us on an exploration of yellow fever, immunity, and inequality in early New Orleans.

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