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An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

… … The 1918 Flu Pandemic … Jim Harris … Milestones … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Global/Transnational … World War I / …
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 … Endowment for the Humanities. … 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 …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… and we are learning how to respond more efficiently to pandemics when they hit to avoid mass fatalities. Influenza, … and viral behavior, and to look not only to cataclysmic pandemics like 1918 for lessons but also to the less spectacular flu pandemics that have dotted the landscape of the twentieth …
nurses holding stretchers

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic vs. the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

What political, economic, and ecological effects did the 1918 Spanish Flu have on the United States and the British Commonwealth?
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… States and the British Commonwealth? … Jason Beavers … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine …
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 … Jim Harris … Thomas McDow … Michael Featherstone … … Susan Petry … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Pandemics & COVID-19 … World History to 1500 … World History …
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.

Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza

… Africa, and southeastern Europe were those brought on by pandemics . Ottoman subjects would endure pandemics from their earliest beginnings in the fourteenth … in world history responded to some of the most devastating pandemics known to humankind. What follows is a quick …
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 … global pandemic or economic de-pression? … Joey Landgraf … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine …
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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9-12
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US History to 1877
US History since 1877
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.

Black Canadians and Pandemics

… News headline for October 26, 1918 in Halifax. Studies of pandemics have repeatedly illustrated the correlation … for the Humanities. … Karen Flynn … Connecting History … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … … Canada … Racism & Racial Ideas … Black Canadians and Pandemics …
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)
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.
… around the world between 1918 and 1919. … Jim Harris … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Global/Transnational … World War I / …
a researcher looking at a test tube of liquid

Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

Grade Level
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 …     … World History since 1500 … Science & Technology … 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 … for the Humanities. … David J Staley … Connecting History … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine …
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 … Sessa … Connecting History … Europe … Middle East … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine …
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 … and we'll see you all next time.   … Nicholas Breyfogle … Pandemics & COVID-19 … Global/Transnational … Science & …