This advertisement in the New York Times during the 1918 influenza pandemic caught my attention, and I wondered if the…
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Spanish Flu Deaths Continue to Stun
The Spanish flu death toll is estimated at 50,000,000 people. That number continues to stun me and was one of…
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Researching & Writing Historical Fiction
Writing historical fiction about the 1918 flu pandemic, which took place during the last year of world war one, has…
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Spanish Flu Spread by Soldiers Training at Camp Funston
Not that anyone called it the Spanish Flu then. When influenza first struck soldiers training for World War 1 —in…
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Haskell County Kansas | Origin of 1918 Influenza Outbreak
Haskell County, Kansas is a place of plowed up prairie, violent storms, and stunning sunsets. Scientists hypothesize this remote, isolated…
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