The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic the World Chose to Forget

This episode traces the 1918 influenza pandemic, from its origins in Kansas to the wartime censorship that hid its true toll, and asks why one of history's deadliest events largely vanished from public memory.

Guests:

John M. Barry: Historian and author of The Great InfluenzaDr. Nancy Bristow: Retired Professor of History, University of Puget Sound; author of American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic