Letters & Politics US History Collection

The Plague in San Francisco

Guest: Marilyn Chase, a journalist and teacher, and the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. She covers medical science and health care focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. She is the author of the book The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco.  Her latest book is Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa.