All Americans Pull Together Exhibit, Third Floor New Books Rotunda

Exhibit--Third Floor New Books Rotunda, Woodruff Library

Guide: http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/disasterdisplay

As we contemplate the federal government’s efforts to deal with Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil spill, this exhibit takes us back to past natural and man-made emergencies, and examines how the federal government attempted to provide relief and recovery services. It pulls together a variety of primary and secondary sources to look at a number of famous disasters including

• Galveston Hurricane of 1900

• San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

• Dust Bowl of the 1930s

• Thalidomide drug crisis of the 1960s

• Love Canal’s toxic waste in the 1970s

 The record shows success as well as failure in the immediate crisis as well as important government efforts to deal with future disasters. These have ranged from the evolution of the Weather Bureau to the establishment of the Superfund to clean up toxic waste.

--Liz McBride and Chris Palazzolo, curators

Many thanks to the Schatten Gallery Staff and Stacks Team for assisting with the display!