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America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918

Alfred W Crosby

From crowded military camps and American cities to Samoa and Alaska, this account traces the 1918 influenza pandemic and asks why the catastrophe faded from public memory.

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15 parts, about 30 minutes to read.

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Author
Alfred W Crosby
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15 parts
Reading time
about 30 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. The Great Shadow2 min
  2. The Advance of the Influenza Virus2 min
  3. Three Explosions: Africa, Europe, and America2 min
  4. The United States Begins to Take Note2 min
  5. Spanish Influenza Sweeps the Country2 min
  6. Flu in Philadelphia2 min
  7. Flu in San Francisco2 min
  8. Flu at Sea on the Voyage to France2 min
  9. Flu and the American Expeditionary Force2 min
  10. Flu and the Paris Peace Conference2 min
  11. Statistics, Definitions, and Speculation2 min
  12. Samoa and Alaska2 min
  13. Research, Frustration, and the Isolation of the Virus2 min
  14. Where Did the Flu of 1918 Go?2 min
  15. An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of Human Memory2 min

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