The Spanish flu emerged as World War I was ending, but it would kill far more people than the conflict itself. Infecting ...

In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious parents. The Spanish flu was spreading rapidly, but Graham insisted the ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

“Churches, Schools, Shows closed.” “Flu epidemic ravages fast.” “Lid to go on city today.” Those headlines are familiar today, but they screamed across newspapers more than 100 years ago during the ...

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...

Should I use soap and water or wear a mask? Should I take the train? Will they close the schools? What will this do to local businesses? Aspen’s residents faced the 1918 influenza pandemic with the ...