#1918

John Schmalzbauer

OzarksWatcher

Last weekend I did some genealogical digging motivated by our current crisis. Since childhood, I'd heard that my great-grandmother's sister died in the flu epidemic of 1918. A few weeks

Tim Mak

timkmak

The 1918/1919 protests against mask wearing and other public health measures have parallels to today We learn through this episode that various groups of Americans have been pushing back against

David Montgomery

dhmontgomery

In October 1918, San Francisco Health Officer William Hassler successfully lobbied the Board of Supervisors to make mask-wearing mandatory as a measure against the pandemic flu.In November, Hassler was fined

ICW: California & The West

HUSC_ICW

1/10 We recently came across these rare and largely unpublished images of Southern Californians during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in the archives at @TheHuntington. Although they are poignant they

Rochelle, at home

Rochelle

I’ve been going through newspaper archives from Washington state in 1918 to see how they talked about influenza then. It’s quite interesting! This is from the Lynden Tribune, October 31,

Sarah Carrier

CarrierScarier

I offer a #pandemic timeline for UNC & Chapel Hill - let's go back to 1918 to see what's possibly relevant for today: First weeks of Oct 1918 pandemic hits

David Grayson

sasanof

Important lessons for Leaders and Comms teams during #COVID19 #COVID19nz via John M Barry "The great Influenza epidemic" ..there is another lesson from 1918 that is clear. It involves fear

Nadege Green

NadegeGreen

This is a thread about the 1918 flu pandemic and how Miami’s black community got its first real hospital after that pandemic. Special thanks to @jddelapaz_ for sharing some of

Matthew Preusch

mpreusch

Starting a thread on some timely bedside table reading: This reminded me of how we are learning that many people are being infected with Coronavirus by people who are not

Lenny Ben-David

lennybendavid

My favorite picture from the Holy Land, & I've collected 1000s. What stands out about the pic, today in the day of #Corona?I found it in the Lib of Congress,

libcom.org

libcomorg

#OTD in 1870 notable counter-revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was born. Lenin went on to lead a coup which seized power from the Soviets. He is also known for ordering the massacre

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Ebonyteach

In so many of our cultures, you know the bathroom is clean when you can't go in there for a good half hour -- gotta let the fan and/or open

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The response to the 1918 pandemic had some remarkably familiar features, as described in this 2010 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/#__ffn_sectitle). For example, there was debate about the effectiveness of mask

shadowed eyes

EyesShadowed

Hoping to catch this @GlosHistFest Spring Festival talk next weekend about the German Empire:https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/blood-and-iron-germany-1871-1918/ Memorial to the German Empire's Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde

Taylor P. van Doren 🦕

taylor_vandoren

As a 1918 flu scholar, I think it's insanely important to point out (now esp. given Dr. Fauci's statement today about "back to normal" by the end of 2021) ...

Amgueddfa RWF Museum

RWFMuseum

#OTD 26th August 1918Lance Corporal Harry Weale wins the Victoria crossHarry Weale was 20 years old, and a Lance-Corporal in 14RWF during WW1 when the following deed took place for