A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Since 2019, the Texas Parks and Wildlife has documented 10 deaths of black bears struck by vehicles in the Trans-Pecos Region, according to a Facebook post by the agency. The recent report of a black ...

History Dept. What the 14th Century Plague Tells Us About How Covid Will Change Politics Regions hit hardest by the Black Death in Europe looked more democratic centuries later.

The Black Death also made John of Gaunt, a younger son of Edward III, the richest man in England and the Duke of Lancaster after his father-in-law died in the plague.

The primary reason that we date the Black Death to the 14th century is because our historical sources told us to. When Green came to work on this subject, she wondered how science might change the ...

The biggest excavation in decades at the Tower of London has revealed remains from up to 50 people, with certain burials ...

The origins of the Black Death are a mystery no more, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that first ...

Studies have estimated that the Black Death killed 30%–50% of Europe’s population between 1347-1351. (For scale, the mortality rate for the Covid pandemic is less than 2.5% for most countries.) ...

People hold signs during a news conference on Tuesday in Memphis discussing the death of Tyre Nichols. (Jeff Roberson/AP) In his 2014 essay “Nothing Left,” the political scientist Adolph Reed ...