If living without sports and other forms of entertainment during the coronavirus pandemic seems alien, it pales compared with the upheaval of 1918. World War I dominated daily life, the Cubs and Red ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — If our present moment feels fraught with unprecedented anxieties, imagine being a University of Michigan student in 1918. Imagine arriving on campus for military training as a ...
John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time." This is ...
The Boerne area did not escape the pandemic. The flu arrived in Texas by late September 1918 and spread rapidly through the ...
There was another global event America and the rest of the globe was dealing with in 1918. World War I was still going on, with the United States getting involved in the conflict the year before. It ...
In the deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar ...
The U.S. military has been forced by the coronavirus pandemic to make some serious changes in their operations. But the Pentagon, and especially the Navy, have also displayed a revealing resistance to ...
IN A REMARKABLE coincidence of history, this spring marks the 100th anniversary of the final serious outbreak of the Spanish flu, the world’s last big pandemic caused by a respiratory-based virus. It ...
A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the First World War, according to new research. This unusual weather may have also ...
In late August 1918, thousands of American sailors housed at the Commonwealth Pier in Boston's Seaport District were waiting to be shipped out to fight in Europe in World War I. Then, a couple of ...
Historian John Monsky's November 1918: The Great War & The Great Gatsby, an immersive musical experience, played Carnegie Hall November 8. See photos from the evening, which explored the events and ...
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