But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...

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 ...

according to “The Hairstons,” a 1999 book by Henry Wiencek that chronicles the Black and white Hairston families. Samuel Hairston, the plantation’s owner, was reputedly the largest enslaver ...

In 2011, researchers from McMasters University suggested that the strain that had caused the Black Death had died out. This latest finding could help researchers understand the evolution of plague ...