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Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… is clear in the historical record. And the history of pandemics helps us better appreciate the current COVID-19 … an increasingly global society makes us more susceptible to pandemics. It also shows how relatively recent advances in … masks , and social segregation. By studying the history of pandemics , we gain an appreciation for the economic as well …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… to Influenza and HIV, learn about the history of global pandemics in order to better understand the current … Dr. Thomas McDow Welcome to pandemics past, present and future. Coming to you from the … science. Historians at OSU and elsewhere, have long studied pandemics, taught their lessons and preached preparation. We …
students wearing masks sitting at desks in a classroom writing

Pandemic Pedagogies (Classroom Activities)

An Interdisciplinary Model for Teaching about the Human Impacts of Pandemics
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World History to 1500
World History since 1500
US History to 1877
US History since 1877
… Model for Teaching about the Human Impacts of Pandemics … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
doctor holding a COVID swab

Pandemics and Public Policy

To what extent does war exacerbate or reduce the impact of major historical events such as a global pandemic or economic de-pression?
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9-12
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US History since 1877
… increased role in response to major public crises like pandemics or the Great Depression. By the end, students will … to evaluate past and current public policy responses to pandemics to evaluate their successes and failures. This … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Pandemics and Public Policy …
Plague Doctor

Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present

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?
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US History to 1877
US History since 1877
… government officials and public health officers to previous pandemics such as the Black Plague, the 1849 Cincinnati … the public/medical responses during previous epidemics and pandemics to aid us in combating COVID-19 on the local, … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Responding to Pandemics—Both Past and Present …
Cover of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy Ann Pettit and Janice Bailie.

Before There Was Swine Flu

Review of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920, by Dorothy A. Pettit and Janice Bailie (Timberlane Books, 2008)
… inclined. These figures clearly lay out the major influenza pandemics of the past century, death rates, morbidity rates … will look more like the relatively mild 1957 or 1968 pandemics than 1918 for epidemiological and sociological … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
Two women in masks in 1918

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Estimates suggest that this flu claimed as many as 50 million lives around the world between 1918 and 1919.
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A makeshift influenza hospital at Camp Funston, 1918.

Top Ten Origins: Flu

… provide much concrete evidence of a series of epidemics and pandemics of what we are almost certain to have been … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
a researcher looking at a test tube of liquid

Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

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9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
Science & Technology
… I selected takes a historical perspective of how different pandemics have been handled throughout the 20th century. Students then apply what they learned from the pandemics of the past to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The … Pandemics Now, Then, and Again …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… It is the time honored way to deal with plagues and pandemics : those who have the means flee the crowds. In the … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.

Cholera and the Roots of Public Health

… two hundred years, there have been seven global cholera pandemics (in 1817-1824, 1829-1837, 1846-1860, 1863-1875, … basis of modern epidemiological investigations. The cholera pandemics also contributed to technological and medical … innovations in public health. The arrival of the cholera pandemics in Europe reinvigorated a centuries-long debate …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple pandemics of bubonic plague in history, scholars sometimes … Pandemics & COVID-19 …
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… think that we've all had a crash course in the politics of pandemics. And we've seen the way that people have different … to treat them, we make it hard for societies to move past pandemics. So I think they're important legacies that we … Pandemics & COVID-19 …