Footnotes: The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

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).

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