If you were a youngster in Boerne around 1918, you might have been chanting this little rhyme: “I had a little bird, its name ...

From its appearance in September 1918 until the WWI Armistice, Spanish flu infected about 40 percent of U.S. Army and Navy personnel. When influenza hit Vancouver Barracks, Col. R. G. Ebert was one of ...

Through the past year, the COVID–19 pandemic has drastically reshaped the average American’s way of life and upended the traditional college experience for UChicago students. However unprecedented ...

Alaska is still considered the last frontier, even in today's modern times. The unforgiving and extreme weather, coupled with the rough terrain, makes it a challenging place to live. More than 100 ...

For more than a century, the 1918 flu held that grim distinction. Here’s what made that outbreak so devastating. White flags on the National Mall mark each of the more than 675,000 lives lost to COVID ...

The early fall of 1918 brought the deadly Spanish influenza to Baltimore — our other, earlier pandemic. The death toll, often affecting people in their 20s and 30s, was devastating. But public ...