the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic
Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. For countless survivors, though, the trauma never ended, shadowing the remainder of their lives with memories of loss.
