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Byerly, Carol R. Fever of War: the influenza epidemic in the U.S. army during World War I
Crosby, Alfred. America's Forgotten Pandemic: the influenza of 1918.
Kolata, Gina Bari. Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
Public Health
NIH Digital Collections: World War 1, 1914-1918
Collection of books with subjects from shell shock to nursing.
Websites
Beyond Statistics: Living in a Pandemic
Virtual exhibit from the Tenement Museum
Closing in on a Killer: Scientists Unlock Clues to the Spanish Influenza Virus .
The Deadly Virus
Influenza Encyclopedia: the American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919
Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Philadelphia.
Virtual exhibit from the Mutter Museum.
In Novels and Literature
Porter, Katherine Anne. The old order : stories of the South, from Flowering Judas, Pale horse, pale rider, and The leaning tower.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider takes place during the 1918 pandemic.
Primary Documents
Annual reports of the secretary of war. 1919. v.1:pt.2. Report of the Surgeon General.
Diary of Donald McKinney, September through December 1918
Diary of a farmer from New Carlisle, Ohio.
The Flu Epidemic, 1918
Includes four oral history transcripts.
Harvey, Oscar. The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918: an account of its ravages in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the efforts made to combat and subdue it. 1920.
History of Helen Viola Jackson Kent.
How influenza got in. Literary Digest. 1918 Nov 30;59:23
Influenza : essays by several authors. 1922.
Kellogg, Wlifred. Influenza, a study of measures adopted for the control of the epidemic. Sacramento, California State Printing Office, 1919.
Ministry of Health. Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects. Nos. 4-6. Report on the Pandemic of Influenza, 1918-1919. 1921.
Officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy who lost their lives during the World War, from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918. 1920.
Public health reports / issued by the Surgeon General, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. v.34:no.1-26 (1919).
Robertson, John D. A report on an epidemic of influenza in the city of Chicago in the fall of 1918. Chicago, Dept. of Health, 1918.
Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia : in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, PA., September 1- December 31, 1918.h
Vaughan, Warren Taylor, Influenza; an epidemiologic study. 1921.
War-reports from the influenza front. Literary Digest. 1919 Feb 20;69:62–7
Film
Influenza 1918
Articles
“It's as Bad as Anything Can Be”: Patients, Identity, and the Influenza Pandemic.
Historical article on the flu.
Wald Lillian D. Influenza: when the city is a great field hospital. Survey. 1920;43:579–81.
Toole, Pauline. The Flu Epidemic of 1918. NYC Department of Records and Information Sevices. 2018.
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