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  1. The Ever-Present Threat of Cholera
    date January 1, 1866 to June 30, 1866map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Health/Death

    The nineteenth century was an era in which people constantly feared the outbreak of epidemic diseases, especially cholera. An epidemic of cholera was already raging in Europe in the fall of 1865, and as had occurred in 1832 and 1849, it seemed inevitable that the disease would cross the Atlantic and ravage the United States. New York saw the arrival of the cholera on April 18th, 1866 on the steamship...

  2. President Garfield's Assassin: Guiteau. His Death and Examination of his Brain
    date June 30, 1882 to September 7, 1882map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Health/Death

    Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was hung on June 30, 1882 and for many days after the newspapers reported his last days, his pre-death speech, his hanging and burial. Many newspapers were waiting for the results of the examination of his brain wondering if he was indeed mentally insane. At the time of his death, he still believed that he was sent by God to assassin President Garfield....

  3. The Change of Society in New Orleans Brought on by Cholera in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to February 17, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags cholera, New Orleans

    The devastation of cholera resumed in New Orleans on January 13, 1849 when the Medical Board pronounced that the disease had made its way into the levee. As was the case in the cholera epidemic of 1833, no one could explain why it had suddenly sprouted up again. There had not been many records indicating that ships from Europe had brought any cases of the disease in the most recent months. Theodore...

  4. The Oncoming Threat of Cholera in New Orleans in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to January 11, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, cholera

    After a sixteen-year hiatus, cholera was once again on the doorstep of New Orleans. On December 30, 1848, reports from Pittsburgh began circling that cholera was the responsible agent for thirteen deaths aboard steamships known as the Diadem, the Watkins, and the Savannah; all of which had docked in the New Orleans harbor. A message from Cincinnati stated that fourteen people aboard the Peytona, which...

  5. Cholera and boosterism in New York and Chicago
    date 1866map NEW YORK, New York, COOK, Illinoistags disease in the north, Chicago, New York City, cholera, rivalry

    Disease epidemics of the mid to late nineteenth century caused an immense amount of fear among everyone and further led to the rivalry and boosterism prevalent between New York City and Chicago during the 1866 cholera epidemic. On August 29, 1866, The Chicago Tribune reported that cholera deaths in New York were at a standstill, and reports extensively from an article from The New York World that “not...