It was late November of 1801, and William C. C. Claiborne arrived in Natchez only a few months before a smallpox epidemic hit the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne had just been appointed to his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana Purchase was still two years away. Natchez was pretty much the wild, wild west on the frontier of a young United ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an entry in Wikipedia, it is highly relevant today. Understanding the ...