Alexis Pedrick and David Barnes interviewing in front of the Lazaretto

Historians David Barnes (author of Lazaretto) and Rana Hogarth (author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840) led an intimate lecture and conversation exploring yellow fever’s long legacy. Then go behind the scenes for an exclusive guided tour of the Lazaretto, America’s first quarantine station. Built in 1799 at the junction of the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers, this historical site stands today as a unique artifact of Philadelphia’s contested scientific past.