Marked San Francisco

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

HIV and AIDS

AIDS was first described in 1981. Around 40 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses. Activists fought for treatment, and since 1996 drugs have let people with HIV live long lives.

Place
San Francisco · Kinshasa · Durban · LondonThe whole world
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe first cases
  2. IIFear and prejudice
  3. IIIFinding the virus
  4. IVActivists and the quilt
  5. VTreatment for all?
  6. VIWhere we are now

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
  • Larry Kramer
  • Princess Diana
  • Zackie Achmat

Objects

  • The AIDS Memorial Quilt
  • Don’t Die of Ignorance leaflets

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1981 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?