Stories
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Brief account of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North-America.
Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America.Date: 1798]- Books
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A brief account of the present state, income, expenditures, &c. of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, and Others, in North-America.
Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America.Date: 1795]- Books
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Charlestown, May 27, 1789. To the members of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, and Others, in North-America. Incorporated by an act of this Commonwealth.
Cary, Richard, 1717-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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A genuine letter from Mr. John Brainard, employed by the Scotch Society for Propagating the Gospel, a missionary to the Indians in America, and minister to a congregation of Indians, at Bethel in East Jersey. To his friend in England. Giving an account of the success of his labours, as well as the difficulties and discouragements that attend his mission among those savages.
Brainerd, John, 1720-1781.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]
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An eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq : late president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others, in North America ; the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Agricultural Society ; the Society for the Advice of Immigrants ; the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and the National Bank in Boston ; who died at Boston, April 8, 1796 ; delivered, May 4, 1796, before the several societies to which he belonged / by John Warren.
Warren, John, 1753-1815.Date: MDCCXCVI [1796]