In England, the Black Death was popularly known as “the pestilence,” and in much of the rest of Europe as “the plague” or “the great dying.” Elizabeth Penrose, in her 1823 book A ...

But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...

Port Washington resident Elon Green’s latest book, “The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart’s New York ...