The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was one of the deadliest events in human history. It spread rapidly across the world during the final year of World War I. Unlike most flu viruses, it killed ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

Cynthia Reeves is the author of the award-winning novel-in-stories “Falling Through the New World,” which follows four ...

However many times one absorbs the brevity of the interlude between the first catastrophic worldwide conflict of the 20th ...

As certain occupants at the White House are more prone to speaking than listening, this vocabulary lesson all boils down to ...

The Mummers Parade not only represents the artistic spirit of the city but also serves as a historical testament to the resilience and creativity of Philadelphians. Philadelphia’s parading spirit has ...

At his height of fame in the 1920s, artist John Innes was dubbed “the Remington of the Canadian West.” ...

This wasn’t just important for the church. It was important for the town,' says church official ahead of special service, ...

History offers few moments as revealing as the opening chapters of a century. The first quarter of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries stands as parallel studies in contradiction, periods marked ...

The U.S. is facing its worst flu season in 25 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which ...

Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo was occupied for only a few years, from roughly 1721 to 1726, before being abandoned, according to the university. The surrounding area already was shaped by ...