In the winter of 1918, an illness was spreading in Haskell County, Kansas. The remote farming community in the state's southwestern corner sat roughly 300 miles from anywhere most Americans would ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

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 ...

CANYON COUNTY, Idaho — Editor's Note: This article was originally published by the Idaho Press. Christmas and New Years were quiet affairs in Nampa in 1918, since the influenza ban prevented any ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post originally ran on July 13, 2020. It is rerunning now as COVID-19 surpasses the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as the deadliest in U.S. history. The Spanish flu claimed an estimated 675,000 ...