Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) This article appears in the January 11/18, 2021 issue .

“In 1918, 50 to 100 million people died of the Spanish Flu,” a narrator says. “A few years later, a Ph.D. medical scientist wrote a book with her first-hand experiences of what was really ...

“Little Souls” by Sandra Dallas is a wonderful read about the Spanish influenza. The story is set in Colorado in the early 1900s. People were afraid to go to restaurants or church for f… ...

In the age of coronavirus, Americans are gripped by tales of the Spanish flu. Lessons from that pandemic crowd the op-ed pages. Books about the contagion climb the best-seller lists.

For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years later, ... However, Crosby’s book made little impact until 1989 when, ...

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The name “Spanish flu” has accompanied the 1918 pandemic ever since, largely because other countries were unwilling or uninterested in reporting on the outbreak within their own borders. We ...

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When the flu arrived in Spain in May, most Spanish people, like most people in general, assumed that it had come from beyond their own borders. In their case, they were right.

A century after the 1918 flu, we see similar patterns in the ways we've responded to COVID-19. Laura Spinney reflects on the Spanish flu and how societies learn to move forward after pandemics.