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Dealing with Disaster through Compassionate Giving: San Francisco Earthquake Survivors Write to President Theodore Roosevelt, January 3, 1909

Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 1:00pm

--Michael Hussey
The featured letter from a San Francisco couple seeking to help earthquake victims in Italy can serve as a jumping off point into the study of natural disasters and emergency relief efforts.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506314.pdf [1]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/dealing_with_disaster_through_compassionate_giving_san_francisco_earthquake_survivor

Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7506/7506314.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/general-us-history
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/social-education
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/secondaryhighschool
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory