‘A Fever Crept In’: Infectious Disease and the American Revolution in Virginia
October 8 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
‘A Fever Crept In’: Infectious Disease and the American Revolution in Virginia
American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
October 8 at 6 pm
Join University of South Carolina professor Woody Holton for a lively discussion about how various infectious diseases, from smallpox and typhus to malaria, affected the American Revolution in Virginia.
The Virginia 250 Signature Exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” will remain open for an extra hour, from 5 to 6 p.m., before the talk.
Tickets are $5. Museum members enjoy a 20% discount.
Woody Holton is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. His 2009 book, “Abigail Adams,” which he wrote on a Guggenheim Fellowship, won the Bancroft Prize. Holton is also the author of “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution” (2007), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His first book, “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia” (1999), won the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (presented by the New York Sons of the Revolution) and the Merle Curti Award (presented by the Organization of American Historians).
His books are required reading on more than 200 college campuses, and his work has been widely anthologized and also translated into German and Arabic. He is currently writing a comprehensive history of the American Revolutionary era
