Flu Pandemic of 1918

We’re repeating a lot of the same mistakes from the 1918 “Spanish Flu” H1N1 outbreak.

These letters and journals offer insights on how to record one's thoughts amid a pandemic.

The lessons of the 1918 flu pandemic.

The literature that arose from the influenza pandemic speaks to our current moment in profound ways, offering connections in the exact realms where art excels.

A story of quarantine.

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu.

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

The influenza pandemic did long-lasting damage to relationships in some American communities. Could the mistrust have been prevented?

“Either they’ve got no conscience, or they’re not awake to the gravity of the situation.”

Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic.

History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ tells the tale of a pandemic she barely survived.

A century ago, Catholic nuns from Philadelphia recalled what it was like to tend to the needy and the sick during the great influenza pandemic of 1918.

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.

The differences between the global response to the Great Flu Pandemic and today’s COVID-19 outbreak could not be more striking.

If kissing was deemed necessary during the flu pandemic, a handkerchief should be used to prevent direct contact with the lips.

In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.

Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.

How Congress bent the rules to combat the Spanish Flu while it's own members began to become victims of the pandemic

A look back at the so-called “Spanish Flu," how it affected the U.S., and why it’s often overlooked today.

The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together during the infamous pandemic

With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.

The pandemic was the most lethal global disease outbreak since the Black Death. What were people thinking at the time?

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.

Stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.

Revisiting the public health lessons learned during the 1918–1919 pandemic and reflecting on their relevance for the present.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.

In the work of writers like W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, we can find new ways to tell our own stories.