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Wear a Mask or Go to Jail
What the history of the 1918 Flu Pandemic can help us understand about today's public health measures.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
,
Jessica Brabble
,
Ariel Ludwig
via
Nursing Clio
on
August 2, 2023
1918 Flu Pandemic Upended Long-standing Social Inequalities – At Least for a Time
The first flu children encounters shapes their immune systems. This had a surprising effect on Black and white mortality rates in 1918.
by
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
,
Martin Eiermann
via
The Conversation
on
December 16, 2022
Searching for Lutiant: An American Indian Nurse Navigates a Pandemic
A 1918 letter sent a historian diving into the archives to learn more about its author.
by
Brenda J. Child
via
Perspectives on History
on
November 21, 2022
Treating the (Last) Pandemic
Heroin, Aspirin, and The Spanish Flu.
by
Jessica Cale
via
Dirty Sexy History
on
September 26, 2022
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The 1918 Flu is Even More Relevant in 2022 Thanks to Omicron
The past provides a key lesson to minimize the damage from the omicron surge.
by
Christopher McKnight Nichols
via
Made by History
on
January 3, 2022
Political Accountability and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Why do some political incumbents adopt aggressive measures to slow the spread of infectious diseases while others do not?
by
Yuri M. Zhukov
,
Jacob Walden
via
Broadstreet
on
December 10, 2021
The 1918 Influenza Won't Help Us Navigate This Pandemic
We have no historical precedent for this moment.
by
Howard Markel
via
The Atlantic
on
August 19, 2021
Flu, 1918
Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.
by
Rose Riegelhaupt
via
Jewish Currents
on
June 14, 2021
What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)
As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by
Lila Thulin
via
Smithsonian
on
May 3, 2021
Why Do We Forget Pandemics?
Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.
by
Nina Burleigh
via
The Nation
on
April 26, 2021
Right All the Way Through: Dr. Minerva Goodman and the Stockton Mask Debate
A 1918 debate offers a portrait of the challenges facing local officials during a health emergency.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
,
Jessica Brabble
,
Ariel Ludwig
via
Nursing Clio
on
April 20, 2021
People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – And Paid a Price
At the first hint the virus was receding, people pushed to get life back to normal. Unfortunately another surge of the disease followed.
by
J. Alexander Navarro
via
The Conversation
on
March 23, 2021
We're Celebrating Thanksgiving Amid a Pandemic. Here's How We Did it in 1918 and What Happened Next.
Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.
by
Grace Hauck
via
USA Today
on
November 24, 2020
What Happened When Woodrow Wilson Came Down With the 1918 Flu?
The president contracted influenza while attending peace talks in Paris, but the nation was never told the full, true story.
by
Meilan Solly
via
Smithsonian
on
October 2, 2020
What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time
Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
by
Ethan J. Kytle
via
Tropics of Meta
on
September 25, 2020
Flu Fallout
A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 22, 2020
“All the World’s a Harem”
How masks became gendered during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
,
Jessica Brabble
,
Ariel Ludwig
via
Nursing Clio
on
September 8, 2020
The Last Pandemic
Using history to guide us in the difficult present.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
via
Humanities
on
August 16, 2020
“The Mask Law will be Rigidly Enforced”
Ordinances, arrests, and celebrations during the influenza epidemic.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
,
Jessica Brabble
,
Ariel Ludwig
via
SHGAPE Blog
on
August 11, 2020
Dispatches from 1918
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
by
Radiolab
via
WNYC
on
July 17, 2020
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1918 Flu Pandemic
Its public health implications in 1918-19, and the way it's been remembered in the years since.