What can we learn from the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, state, and national levels?
Grade Level
9-12
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Teaching Area
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
… health officers to previous pandemics such as the Black Plague, the 1849 Cincinnati Cholera outbreak, and the 1918 …
Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… discrimination, segregation, and economic hardship still plague our society especially in American cities, where …
… of the Black Death, men were particularly vulnerable to the plague bacillus and died at a much higher rate. So there … of the population, was eliminated because of the bubonic plague striking in the 1340s. But even worse, it kept on … very stressed out about society. And they interpreted the plague as God is angry at us for not being good enough …
Review of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… time and genre. Destruction by fire, water, foreigner, and plague have remarkable resiliency, as does the destruction …
… when we get the Comstock laws. This goes back to after the plagues in the Middle Ages, there was witch hunting crazes, … about population bouncing back from these devastating plagues. And so one way to attack that is to attack …
… any race or ethnicity). Ultimately, however, Woodhull was plagued by scandals, some of her own making and others that … Federation of America. Like Woodhull, however, Ferraro was plagued by scandal, most of which related to her husband’s …