Tucked away among the thousands of artifacts in the collections of two San Antonio museums are a handful of items from the 1918 flu pandemic that illustrate how living through a pandemic is much the ...

On March 11, 1918, nearly one year into America’s involvement in World War I, the country reported its first case of a new illness at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas. This disease, an H1N1 strain ...

It’s undeniable that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our lives. And for many of us in the United States, it’s the first pandemic we’ve ever experienced. However, it’s not the ...

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They say we study history so that we may learn from the mistakes of the past and avoid repeating them in the future. The 1918 influenza pandemic took the lives of 675,000 Americans, and as of today, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oct. 7—GRAND FORKS — A movie about the Spanish flu, "Influenza 1918," will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with ...

In the end, the 1918 Spanish flu that descended on Kansas City soon after the school year began would kill an estimated 2,300 local people, filling news pages with “mortuary notices.” Even among ...