Listen "Footnotes: The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919"
Episode Synopsis
Additional Reading:The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19: Supporting Materials for Teachers (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era).Alfred Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2nd ed., 2003).Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010).Roundtable with Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy Bristow, E. Thomas Ewing, Joseph M. Gabriel, Benjamin C. Montoya and Elizabeth Outka “Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 4: 642-672.Elizabeth Outka, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (2019).Kenneth Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War (2018).Host Suggestion:Sarah Churchwell, Behold America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream (2019). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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