World War I and the Spanish Flu: Hidden Sacrifices of Soldiers and Civilians

The 1918 so-called “Spanish” Influenza reached its deadly peak in every country just as World War I was coming to an end. Dr. Elinor Accampo, professor of history, University of Southern California, will place the flu in a transnational context, focus on the interaction of the war and the flu in peoples’ experiences and perceptions, and seek to understand how this interaction contributed to an “amnesia” about the flu that developed in its wake.