Humanity's greatest predator: A laboratory recreation of the H1N1 virus that killed untold millions in 1918. Credit: BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty The coronavirus is nothing next to the ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

Staff Writer On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu ...

What happened here and in the world that fall and winter of 1918-19 can make it sound like history does indeed repeat itself. But it doesn’t. A century ago - in the fall of 1918 - Sonoma County was ...

With the United States hitting the grim milestone of almost 550,000 deaths from COVID-19 and increasing public recognition that hundreds of thousands of those deaths may have been preventable, we may ...

It was the worst pandemic in modern history. The 1918 influenza virus swept the globe, killing at least 50 million people worldwide. In the US, the disease devastated cities, forcing law enforcement ...

Sometimes, in our careers, we are lucky enough to hit on a topic that becomes more than work, a life force of its own, a passion. In 2004, I was searching for an MA research project in Maynooth, and ...

1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict. In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass ...