1918 Great Influenza Resource Guide
The following list of resources may serve as a guide for learning more about the 1918 Great Influenza. We encourage you to also consult Georgetown Law Library’s Pandemic Flu – Public Health Research Guide, which focuses on the law related to efforts in preventing, detecting, and containing human influenza on the international, regional, and national level.
Articles
- Smithsonian Magazine, “Ten Myths About the 1918 Flu Pandemic” (January 2018)
- Time, “The Worst Flu Pandemic of the 20th Century Has an Urgent Lesson for Today” (January 2018)
- Smithsonian Magazine, “How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America” (November 2017)
- Time, “What Made the Spanish Flu so Deadly?” (March 2015)
- The Washington Post, “The flu pandemic that came to Washington in 1918 killed 2,800, sickened many more” (October 2014)
- National Geographic, “1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say” (January 2014)
- History.com, “Spanish Flu” (2010)
Books
- John Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (2004)
- Nancy Bristow, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (2012)
- Carol Byerly, Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic In The U.S. Army During World War I (2005)
- Alfred Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2003)
- Ryan Davis, The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 (2013)
- Jane Fisher, Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War: Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2012)
- Mark Honigsbaum, Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (2009)
- Edwin Kendig, The Great White Plague: A Personal Memoir (1996)
- Susan Kent, The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: a Brief History with Documents (2013)
- Gina Kolata, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It (1999)
- Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote, The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year (2004)
- Dorothy Pettit, A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 (2008)
- Howard Phillips and David Killingray, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives (2003)
- María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan Davis, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas (2014)
- Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (2017)