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Believe in the Power of Your Own Story: Connect Your Story to America’s Story
Album Description
Comparing how average people experience historic pandemics. This album will contain journal entries and newspaper articles from 1918.
Also include lesson prompts to have students journal about their own experiences.
bestofNew Mexico state record., November 15, 1918, Image 8
Teaching Notes
Teachers helped make items because schools were closed during the "flu"
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93061701/1918-11-15/ed-1/seq-8/
Reference note
Newspaper: New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93061701/1918-11-15/ed-1/seq-8
Image provided by: University of New Mexico
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93061701/1918-11-15/ed-1/seq-8.pdf
National Archives and the Deadly Virus (1918)
Teaching Notes
This is a list of primary sources from the National Archives concerning the 1918 pandemic.
Influenza on a Troop Ship by Henry May
Wear a Mask and Save Your Life: the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Teaching Notes
National Archives
Parents PACK Personal Stories – Influenza
Teaching Notes
"What we don’t often stop to consider is how families can be affected over time — even generations later; their family trees forever altered by diseases. The 1918 pandemic is an extreme example of what a disease can do. Yet the reality is, even one family member lost to a disease such as influenza, measles, meningitis or a host of others, forever changes a family — leaving an everlasting what if."
1918 FLU PANDEMIC DID NOT SPARE BASEBALL
Teaching Notes
Flu killed many associated with baseball. Includes historic pictures.
What the 1918 pandemic can teach cities about public spaces today
Teaching Notes
Lessons on restricting public spaces and social interaction in the age of coronavirus
Lessons for the Movie Industry from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Trump is ignoring the lessons of 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions, historian says
Teaching Notes
Interesting look at 1918.
Pandemic and Civic Virtue: The American Red Cross and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 March 19, 2020 by Danna Bell
Teaching Notes
Lots of information about the Red Cross and face masks. influenza 1918 pandemic civics in action.
These Historic Photos Show Life in DC During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Teaching Notes
Great photos most from Library of Congress.
Public Gathering Places Ordered Closed
Teaching Notes
Great article
The Wahpeton times. [volume], October 17, 1918, Image 7
Teaching Notes
Article - Talks about the different outbreaks, calling it "Spanish" influenza and how it spreads.
Reference note
Newspaper: The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024779/1918-10-17/ed-1/seq-7
Image provided by: State Historical Society of North Dakota
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024779/1918-10-17/ed-1/seq-7.pdf
UCBH (High School) Student Journal Assignments
Teaching Notes
Great ideas need to scaffold for younger kids.
Precautions taken in Seattle, Wash., during the Spanish Influenza Epidemic would not permit anyone to ride on the street cars without wearing a mask. 260,000 of these were made by the Seattle Chapter of the Red Cross which consisted of 120 workers, in three days
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017668638/
Reference note
Created / Published: [ca. 1918 or 1919]
Subject Headings: - American Red Cross
- United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: - Title and notes from Red Cross caption card.
- Group title: Disaster Relief
- Date based on date of negatives in same range.
- Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
- General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
- Temp note: Batch 6
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 02654 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.02654
Evening journal. [volume], October 29, 1917, Page 13, Image 13
Teaching Notes
Interesting connections. Also look at the wording and women's right to vote.
Reference note
Newspaper: Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042354/1917-10-29/ed-1/seq-13
Image provided by: University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042354/1917-10-29/ed-1/seq-13.pdf
The Raymer enterprise., October 10, 1918, Image 1
Reference note
Newspaper: The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89052040/1918-10-10/ed-1/seq-1
Image provided by: History Colorado
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89052040/1918-10-10/ed-1/seq-1.pdf
NY Times Single Most important Lesson
Day 1- Creating a One-Sentence Journal for two weeks..pdf
Teaching Notes
Assignment 1 - One-Sentence journal
Montanans and the Influenza Epidemic
Teaching Notes
Montanans and the Influenza Epidemic. The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.
“ ‘No More War, No More Plague’: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic Toll on Montana.”
Teaching Notes
Fluey Diary
Teaching Notes
Publication of college student in 1918 and his experience with the flu.