The purpose of U.S. History and Public Health is to analyze the significant periods of U.S. history while building and establishing a foundation of practical knowledge in healthcare applications. Students will study thematic events in history as a pathway to understand the context and scope of public health on both the individual level and within the public sector. Students will analyze the cause and effect relationship between events throughout U.S. history, and the country’s approach to health and medical care. Examples include the Great Depression and how the U.S. government changed policies to improve the health of the citizens as well as the impact of the Civil and World Wars and how battlefield medicine improved health care of the citizens. Students will use their analysis of the integrated curriculum that includes traditional texts, primary source health and history documents, as well as public sources to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in U.S. history through the lens of healthcare. On completion of the course, students will be completing their eleventh grade U.S. history requirement while being prepared for the advanced health course in their CTE Health Care pathway.