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 …
… 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)
… 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 …
… and immigrants at the turn of the century, police brutality plagued cities as well. Newspapers noted the frequency with … a stolen car on foot. Black leaders in Memphis, a city long plagued by police brutality, called for a boycott on white …