Civics and Health

An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.

At a glance A revealing document of the era's belief that a strong nation depended on the healthy… There was a time when teaching children to wash their hands and teaching them to be good… This book is a product of that conviction, joining the health of the body to the health… What it's about Civics and Health is an instructional work of the Progressive Era that…

Civics and Health is an instructional work of the Progressive Era that presents personal hygiene, sanitation, and physical wellbeing as matters of public concern and civic responsibility.