Teaching Guide: Exploring the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

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Keywords
yellow fever mosquito disease epidemic Memphis Mississippi River Valley sanitation public health charity work primary sources critical thinking analysis newspaper illustrations outbreak illness
Subjects
Science History-Social Science STEAM
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Teaching Guide: Exploring the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878

This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set, The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, in the classroom. It offers discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools. It is intended to spark pedagogical creativity by giving a sample approach to the material. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt the resources in this guide for your teaching purposes.
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