The great pox: origins and European background
A "secret disease": syphilis in America before the First World War
"Continence is not incompatible with health": syphilis in World War I
"Congress apparently thought the spirochetes of syphilis were demobilized": the interwar years
"Fool the Axis
use prophylaxis": syphilis in World War II
"Magic in the form of penicillin": syphilis in America since World War II.
Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America by John Parascandola. ISBN 9780275994303. Published by Praeger in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.