Reporting: Pandemic 1918-1920

Reporting: Pandemic 1918-1920 offers students and researchers a collection of contemporary newspaper and magazine articles describing the global Spanish Influenza pandemic that spread through Europe the United States and Asia beginning in the final months of World War I. Readers can trace the suspected origins of the deadly strain from an isolated region of Kansas through and from US military bases to the battlefields of Europe and from European ports to the rest of the world. On its terrifying journey through a largely unprepared population the Spanish flu revealed cultural political and scientific rifts that prevented a coordinated response and popular resistance to preventive measures that predicted a similar response and result for the global coronavirus pandemic that began a century later.The Archive of American Journalism is an innovative multi-volume collection of rare long out-of-print journalism. The Archives Reporting series collects articles around important themes and events in the nations history. Each article is presented complete and unabridged as it originally appeared in contemporary newspapers popular magazines and literary journals. These compilations offer the student researcher and casual reader a fascinating street-level view of history and the keys to a long-neglected treasure trove of American writing.