We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
Why is the history of medicine completely absent from history standards? As Ebola explodes in the news, capture student interest to teacher ethnocentrism and nativism of 19th C America in US History or Globalization of disease in the World History using the Cholera outbreaks of 1832 and 1849. You can even teach Geography with it. This New York Times article speaks of the way in which cities confronted disease outbreaks.