Forgetting and Remembering the “Spanish” Flu Pandemic
The “Spanish” flu pandemic of 1918-19 went largely ignored by historians and the general public alike until COVID19 struck in March 2019. This talk will describe the WWI-era pandemic, suggest some possible reasons for this historical amnesia, and conclude with a discussion of what lessons we can draw from this previous crisis to aid us in our current one.
Monday, March 7 at 3:00 pm
Presented by Karl Brown, Associate Professor, History
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public and registration is not required. Lectures may be recorded and posted to our Fairhaven Lecture website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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