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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...