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1940s House: Making a Connection between WWII and Rationing

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Type: Course Related Materials
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Collection: KQED Education Network
Grade Level: Primary, Secondary

Abstract: Through viewing and discussion of the video and investigation of the Web resources, students will develop a deeper understanding of rationing and the mathematics needed in a WWII household.

Chinese Exclusion Act

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Social Sciences
Collection: Calisphere - California Digital Library
Grade Level: Primary, Secondary

Abstract: Starting with the Gold Rush, Chinese migrated to California and other regions of the United States in search of work. As several photographs show, many Chinese found work in the gold mines and on the railroads. They accepted $32.50 a month to work on the Union Pacific in Wyoming in 1870 for the same ... More »

"Please, Let Me Put Him in a Macaroni Box" The Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Philadelphia

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: In 1918 and 1919 the Spanish influenza killed more humans than any other disease in a similar period in the history of the world. In the United States a quarter of the population (25 million people or more) contracted the flu; 550,000 died. In the early 1980s, when historian Charles Hardy did interviews ... More »

"There Wasn't a Mine Runnin' a Lump O' Coal": A Kentucky Coal Miner Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

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Type: Library or Collection
Subject: Humanities
Collection: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract: In 1918 the Spanish influenza hit the United States and then the rest of the world with such swiftness that it sometimes went unnoticed until it had already passed. By mid-1919 it had killed more people than any other disease in a similar period in the history of the world. Kentucky coal miner Teamus ... More »

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