Inoculation theory proposes that psychological inoculation – analogous to getting a medical vaccination – can immunize people ...

The roots of American anti-vaccination ideology go way back to 1721, when a smallpox epidemic threatened Boston. Cotton Mather, the Hub’s leading minister, had learned about inoculation — infecting ...

Editor’s Note: This February, for Black History Month, the Pottstown School District is making regular posts on its Facebook page. The district is paying tribute both to the accomplishments of some of ...

Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today’s ...

In her poem “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,” Adrienne Rich writes of a woman who is “Poised, trembling and unsatisfied, before / an unlocked door, that cage of cages.” The subject of these lines is ...