The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

When the first World War I soldier from Yavapai County (named William King) died in March 1918, a huge crowd turned out for ...

In the early 20th century, science was sufficiently sophisticated to anticipate that influenza, which had twice reached pandemic proportions in the late 19th century, would recur, but was largely ...

University of Alberta's Pembina Hall temporarily served as a makeshift hospital ward during a deadly pandemic.

Autumn 1918 brought the end of World War One, but not the end of chaos. As empires fell, revolution spread through Europe, and the Spanish Flu killed millions worldwide. At the same time, new ...

Vanderbilt’s football season was delayed by a coach’s illness amid a pandemic, and the university’s senior medical students petitioned the faculty for early graduation to be sent to the front lines.

A year earlier, Neptune used a late score to knock off Asbury Park on Thanksgiving Day to win the East Jersey League championship, after ending Lakewood’s designs on the title a week earlier. And with ...