Join us at Harry’s Hofbrau in Redwood City on Tuesday, February 18. Harry’s opens at 11 am for cafeteria style lunch; our meeting will start promptly at 12 noon. See the MEETING INFO menu item for directions. This month’s topic is

Kathryn Olivarius on “Super-spreader: Syphilis, Shame, and the Civil War”

At least 200,000 Union soldiers—mostly unmarried men in their teens and twenties—contracted venereal disease during the Civil War. Some died from it. But many others survived the war and brought it home, making this war for freedom a super-spreader event for syphilis and shame.