Adrienne deNoyelles

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Adrienne deNoyelles is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Florida. Her dissertation, currently titled “‘The Lung Block’: Tuberculosis and Reform in Progressive-Era New York,” examines the public-health and social factors that shaped the rise and eventual defeat of a 1903 campaign to destroy an immigrant slum and replace it with a park.

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Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Tuberculosis in Progressive Era New York City

By Adrienne deNoyelles • April 4, 2017

Since January, Americans have grappled with the implications of the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to suspend immigration from six (originally seven) predominantly Muslim countries. The tones of fear and moral outrage sound eerily similar to those from more than a century earlier, when anxious nativists sought to halt the flow of millions of impoverished Jews… Read more →