One hundred years ago, as World War I was coming to a close during the fall of 1918, a flu pandemic hit the world seemingly overnight. In the span of a few months, the flu infected one-third of the ...

Warehouses were converted to keep the infected quarantined during the 1918 Influenza pandemic. This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical ...

Earlier this month, world leaders gathered in Paris to mark the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I. Scores of articles and essays accompanied these events, discussing the war and the ...

The 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic surged in the military training camps and foxholes of a brutal world war - the perfect incubation conditions for an influenza historians now believe got its start not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Countries caught up in the 1914-1918 war censored information about the extent to which the flu outbreak was ravaging their troops. Spain was, however, neutral in the conflict and had no such ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, Duluthians have hunkered down at home while schools and events have been canceled and many businesses have closed. But with confirmed cases now reaching the Northland ...

Account of the opposition movement to the imposition of conscription on Ireland by the British Government during the First World War. World War I broke out on 28 July 1914, pitting an alliance ...

Bufus Outlaw, 93, (right) and Theodore Jackson, 83, hang out in Outlaw's garage in Gray's Ferry. They have seen the results of the 1918 riots ripple through their neighborhood to the present. (Avi ...