Episode #31: 1803 Timeline Twist & The Pandemic that Made America

6/26/2024: On today’s episode, Valerie’s 1803 Timeline Twist presents the first practical steamboat (sans frivolity), the wild story of the first Parisian hack writer/theater critic/food critic who escaped execution during the French Revolution thanks to his dicklist contender parents, the details surrounding London’s Whitehall Balls, and a peek inside of the Lewis and Clark expedition’s medicine chest - Rush’s Thunderbolts anyone?!?! Next, Amy Jo tells the long and winding tale of Yellow-Jack, and how it shaped America, including a brief history of Yellow Fever, Benjamin Rush’s baffling theory on the disease (the remedy was NOT Rush’s Thunderbolts), a glimpse into the terrifying outbreak in New York City in the Summer of 1803, how the Haitian Revolutionaries’ knowledge of fending off Yellow Fever allowed them to defeat the French (mosquito warfare if you will) which thwarted Napoleon’s plans for America, leading to the Louisiana Purchase. It’s all connected!

Cover Photo: 1892 etching titled "Death of Aurelio Caballero due to yellow fever in Veracruz," by Jose Guadalupe Posada

1. Charlotte Dundas cut-away drawing by Robert Bowie

2. Louisiana Purchase Map

3. Meteorite (chondrite L6) from L'Aigle, Orne, France. Fallen on 26 April 1803 at 13:00. Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris

4. A shop sign for the fine grocer Corcellet in Paris. The man in the picture is said to be Grimod. This sign is now in the Carnavalet Museum in Paris

5. Page from one of Grimod's books

6. October 1, 1803 Advertisement

7. De Noord

8. Fashions of London and Paris, June 1803

9. Benjamin Rush statue on "Navy Hill" which is, due to security, in a section of Washington, D.C., not accessible to tourists

10. This illustration depicts a yellow fever victim in a Jefferson Street home in Memphis. It's from a series of images entitled "The Great Yellow Fever Scourge — Incidents Of Its Horrors In The Most Fatal District Of The Southern States."

11. Bleecker Diary entries, July 1803

12. A portrait of Toussaint Louverture Oil on Canvas

13. Saint Domingue Revolt, 1802. Rebel slaves fighting the French in Saint Domingo in 1802. Wood engraving, c1802

14. Book Cover - Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

15. 1803 Lewis and Clark Marker - Photographed By Sandra Hughes, August 12, 2012

Sources/Photo Sources

Intro Sources:

Timeline Twist Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1803

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Dundas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_(meteorite)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Wayne_(1803)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krombacher_Brauerei

https://maefood.blogspot.com/2021/01/grimod-de-la-reyniere-food-critic.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/traditional/a-blacksmith-courted-me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Noord

https://www.regencydances.org/paper040.php

https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/medrush.htm

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/medicine-on-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition.htm

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1803

Timeline Twist Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Dundas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_(meteorite)

https://maefood.blogspot.com/2021/01/grimod-de-la-reyniere-food-critic.html

https://www.facebook.com/American.Antiquarian/photos/this-1803-advertisement-was-placed-in-a-providence-rhode-island-newspaper-by-wil/10155445492898545/?paipv=0&eav=AfaQhJeLfDVw43bTQG3g8qhlWK6NdukFpBwdBiTPZfKST8wDdqTj4YxqPg0uJQQArFk&_rdr

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10155445492898545&set=this-1803-advertisement-was-placed-in-a-providence-rhode-island-newspaper-by-wil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Noord

https://candicehern.com/regencyworld/full-dresses-june-1803/

The Pandemic that Made America Sources:

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2016-08-28/yellow-fever-timeline-the-history-of-a-long-misunderstood-disease 

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/long-lasting-health-impacts-ddt-highlighted-new-study

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Louis_de_Lorimier 

https://native-land.ca/

https://www.betrayalinhaiti.org/history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/yellow_fever.html 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441371/pdf/tacca00106-0113.pdf 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture

https://asm.org/articles/2021/may/history-of-yellow-fever-in-the-u-s 

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/07/27/bleecker-diary-summer-1803 

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=107721 

https://medium.com/@caroline_67183/yellow-fever-was-just-as-important-as-toussaint-louverture-in-the-haitian-revolution-caf5b644a6d2 

https://www.powells.com/book/silent-spring-9780618249060?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw97SzBhDaARIsAFHXUWDx1W4gSZNT4EDm1tN9PvfeawxQIFP_-OxKqIa1UTX6tBJKsmNORuoaAh9jEALw_wcB

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/05/06/a-lesson-from-history-how-the-yellow-fever-epidemic-changed-society/  

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/188/7-8/171/7165307

The Pandemic that Made America Photo Sources:

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/07/27/bleecker-diary-summer-1803

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2016-08-28/yellow-fever-timeline-the-history-of-a-long-misunderstood-disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture#/media/File:Toussaint_Louverture_-_Girardin.jpg

https://asm.org/articles/2021/may/history-of-yellow-fever-in-the-u-s

https://medium.com/@caroline_67183/yellow-fever-was-just-as-important-as-toussaint-louverture-in-the-haitian-revolution-caf5b644a6d2

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=107721

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/1620973928/ref=asc_df_1620973928/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693686765672&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7907532554948899320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023845&hvtargid=pla-529461758052&psc=1&mcid=83f6561aeb9431ff9c43d59519f63fbf&gad_source=1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush#/media/File:Benjamin_Rush_statue_in_Washington,_DC.jpg