HST 143 - Introduction to History: Epidemic America

1 course unit

This course examines American history through the prism of epidemic diseases from the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston to the AIDS epidemic at the end of the twentieth century. How society and culture responded to these crisis points in American history reveals much about the changes in America from the early eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The course will explore how epidemic diseases have had an impact on religion, science, medicine, the rise of the city, sanitation, public health, and civil rights.
Meets general academic requirement HU.