May 13, 2026
Essay
Korean War Hantavirus: Hemorrhagic Fever History
How Korean War trench warfare, rodent ecology, and Hantaan virus turned a mysterious military outbreak into hantavirus history.
Topic hub
Disease And War
War, armies, migration, logistics, barracks, ships, and the infections that move through military systems.
Essays
7 linked piece(s)
This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
March 21, 2026
Essay
Disease in the American Revolutionary War: Who Died of What?
Disease mortality in the American Revolutionary War, including battle deaths, smallpox, camp disease, military medicine, and eighteenth-century survival.
March 16, 2026
Essay
Disease on the Oregon Trail: Cholera, Dysentery, and Death
Disease on the Oregon Trail, from cholera and dysentery to overland migration, sanitation, graves, and nineteenth-century westward travel.
March 7, 2026
Essay
Yellow Fever and Napoleon’s American Empire
How yellow fever, mosquitoes, Saint-Domingue, military failure, and disease ecology helped destroy Napoleon’s North American empire plans.
February 27, 2026
Essay
The American Revolution Was Nearly Lost to Smallpox
Before the Revolution was won on the battlefield, Washington had to solve a smallpox problem inside the army.
February 14, 2026
Essay
Disease in the Early Colonies: Pre-Revolutionary War Disease Ecology and Outbreaks
Before the Revolution, British North America was already being shaped by smallpox, measles, enteric disease, mosquitoes, war, trade, and settlement.
June 10, 2025
Essay
Justinianic Plague and War Epidemiology
A War Epidemiology chapter draft on the Justinianic Plague, military stress, empire, logistics, and disease pressure in 541 CE.