On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...

The act comes in the midst of the Black Death, a plague epidemic that eventually takes the lives of 14 to 15 million people ... opens at Marseilles. A century later, city officials enact a law ...

England 14th century. Plague and bandit attacks threaten remote communities and the forests that surround them add nameless terrors. The people labour under the yoke of two oppressive powers - the ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the twentieth century, it came to America. In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong ...