The Black Death was used as a biological weapon. In 1347, the Mongol khan Janibeg was in the midst of a siege of Kaffa, a Genoese trading port in modern-day Crimea. He hoped to oust the Genoese ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations. Among the scars left by this mass mortality event ...

which is the basis of modern medicine. The belief that miasma was responsible for the Black Death meant there were efforts to clean up towns by employing gong farmers and muckrakers, which showed ...