Infectious Respiratory Disease

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.05.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Demographics
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Annotated Bibliography for Students
  8. Appendix Implementing District Standards
  9. Notes

Smallpox and Freedom

Valerie Schwarz

Published September 2025

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Notes

1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279396/ accessed July 24, 2025.

2 Bernstein, Simon. Smallpox and Variolation: Their Historical Significance in the American Colonies, Journal of Mount Sinai Hospital Vol. XVIII, No. 4 Nov.-Dec. 1951. 228.

3 Bernstein, Simon.  228.

4 Berstein, Simon, 229.

5 Wehrman, 28-29.

6 Wehrman, Andrew, The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox and the American  Revolution, 28-29.

7 Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana 33-34.

10 Wehrman, 36.

9 Wehrman, 130.

10 Fenn, 35.

11 Wehrman, 132.

12 Wehrman, 136.

13 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3284295/ accessed July 17, 2025.

14 Marrin, Albert, Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine, 58.

15 Marrin, 64.

16  Marrin, 67-72.

15 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/220.html accessed July 24, 2025.

18 Fenn, 3.

19 Fenn, 28.

20 Fenn, 28.

21 Bernstein, 231.

22 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16546924/#:~:text=skills%2C%20and%20humanity.-,Dr.,class%20performed%20by%20an%20American. Accessed July 28, 2025.

23 Wehrman, 16.

24 Wehrman, 18.

25 Fenn, 36.

26 Wehrman, 45.

27 Wehrman, 60.

28 Wehrman, 62.

29  Wehrman, 69.

30  Wehrman, 75.

31 Wehrman, 78.

32 Wehrman, 79.

33 Wehrman, 81.

34  Wehrman, 82.

35 Wehrman, 83.

36 Wehrman, 88.

37 Wehrman, 91.

38  Wehrman, 92.

39 Wehrman, 92.

40 Wehrman, 93.

41 Wehrman, 5.

42 Wehrman, 165.

43 Wehrman, 167.

44 Wehrman, 173.

45 Fenn, 55.

46 Wehrman, 174.

47 Wehrman, 187.

48 Fenn, 79.

49 Wehrman, 190.

50 Wehrman, 190.

51 Fenn, 265.

52 Wehrman, 190.

53 Sellick, Gary. Undistinguished Destruction, 867.

54 Sellick, Gary, 872.

55 Fenn, 58.

56 Fenn, 59.

57 Sellick, 873.

58 Sellick, 873.

59 Rees, John. They Were Good Soldiers.16.

60 Wehrman, 198.

61 Wehrman 206.

62 Wehrman, 209.

63 Fenn, 94.

64  Fenn, 128.

65  Wehrman, 245.

66  Ranlet, 221.

67 Oldstone, Michael B. A. Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future, 81.

68 Oldstone, 81.

69 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-06-02-0068. Accessed July 24, 2025.

70 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5944868/. Accessed July 24, 2025.

71 Oldstone, 82.

72 Oldstone, 70.

73 Oldstone, 70.

74 Downs, Jim. Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction,111.

75 Downs, 111.

76 Downs, 116.

77 Downs, 106.

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