Flu Pandemic of 1918

Masks have a history associated with disease, status, gender norms, and more.

For hundreds of years, false theories of “innate difference and deficit in black bodies” have shaped American responses to disease.

The different ways news media approaches pandemic reporting.

A conversation with Mike Davis about what must be done to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – and all the other monsters still to come.

In addition to COVID-19, another pandemic is preying upon the human spirit, nourished by a vulgar bigotry that has gone viral.

The most important design object of our time was more than a century in the making.

Restaurants have always been about more than feeding city residents. During the 1918 flu pandemic, they were kept open as sites of social solidarity.

Dr. Maurice Hilleman caught the 1957 flu when even the military and WHO couldn't.

Lessons from a century ago.

The history of epidemics offers considerable advice, but only if people know the history and respond with wisdom.

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.

Rose Cleveland declared her passion for the woman she had a relationship with spanning three decades in letter after letter.

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

The people who make it past 100, who watch the most history unfold, are almost all women.