America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Conquering the Yellow Fever

4 pages in this part of America First.

Conquering the Yellow Fever

There was an enemy that for hundreds of years no one learned to conquer. Its presence spread terror wherever it appeared. It lurked in…

Conquering the Yellow Fever: Commission

Carlos Finlay, a physician in Cuba, offered the suggestion that the fever might be carried by the bite of a mosquito. The other members of…

Conquering the Yellow Fever: Lazear

Dr. Carroll was bitten by an infected mosquito, took the fever, and came near dying. Dr. Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by a mosquito…

Conquering the Yellow Fever: British

THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA During the World War, it was the declared policy of Germany to torpedo any vessel flying an enemy flag in the…

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