During the 1918 influenza pandemic in Birmingham, churches were closed. The Birmingham News offered to print sermons, service outlines, scriptures and announcements sent in by various clergy to help ...

The deadly Spanish influenza pandemic made its way to Eureka on Oct. 11, 1918. City Physician Lawrence Wing and Eureka Mayor George Cousins announced that the city’s first four cases were confirmed ...

The five-column headline that greeted readers of The Atlanta Constitution roughly a century ago is an eerie reminder of the parallels between the coronavirus and another debilitating pandemic that ...

When Brown University students woke up on the morning of Oct. 8, 1918, they learned they had two choices: pack up and return home or remain on campus indefinitely. A campus-wide quarantine was being ...

Looking back at a newspaper’s old editorial cartoons can provide a window into history. Often using humor and biting satire, these cartoons provide the readers of today with a glimpse into what people ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic provides a cautionary tale for what the future may hold for COVID-19, says Siddharth Chandra. After a decade studying a flu virus that killed approximately 15,000 Michigan ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. The 1918 ...

Ernest Hemingway wrote from his hospital bed in Milan in October 1918 that people dying from the Spanish flu “drowned in mucus, choking, unable to breathe.” At that time the 19-year-old writer was ...

Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas in 1918. An advertisement shows how to avoid the flu during the pandemic. Clerks in New York ...

A different pandemic swept across the world a century ago, killing about 60 million people. Schools and businesses closed, and many cities required people to wear face masks to slow the spread of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Unlike the existential threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak, cultural life returned swiftly to normal after the flu. By William Robin “Music Nets ...