We’ve been studying the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in my Fictions of Early America class. If history is a story, Mathew Carey was a true villain in real life and fiction.

This is one of the epigraphs of the historical fiction short story “Fever” by John Edgar Wideman.

A bit late for #BlackHistoryMonth but well worth talking about!

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The third mini-bio from the slashed AP AA Studies list is out. Fabio Rojas is one of the ones that I was unfamiliar with so I enjoyed learning about him. Now he has another fan.

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