Masks. Quarantines. Crowded hospitals. A public entertainment blackout. All of that occurred in 1918, during the great Flu Pandemic. And Broadway, looking back, might be tempted to take its cue from ...

When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...

Scientist Johan Hultin traveled to Brevig Mission, Alaska, a town of a few hundred souls in the summer of 1997. He was searching for buried bodies, and Alaska’s frozen ground was the perfect place to ...