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In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30% in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the countrys participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States.

This epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history of infectious disease in the United States. The Flu Epidemic of 1918 examines the impact of the outbreak on health, medicine, government, and individual peoples lives, and also explores the puzzle of Americans decades-long silence about the experience once it was over. In a concise narrative bolstered by primary sources including newspaper articles, eye-witness accounts, and government reports, Sandra Opdycke provides undergraduates with an unforgettable introduction to the 1918 epidemic and its after-effects.

Critical Moments in American History is a series of short texts designed to familiarize students with events or issues critical to the American experience. Through the use of narrative and primary documents, these books help instructors deconstruct an important moment in American history with the help of timelines, glossaries, textboxes, and a robust companion website.

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The Flu Epidemic of 1918
In 1918, a devastating worldwide influenza epidemic hit the United States. Killing over 600,000 Americans and causing the national death rate to jump 30 percent in a single year, the outbreak obstructed the countrys participation in World War I and imposed terrible challenges on communities across the United States.
This epidemic provides an ideal lens for understanding the history of infectious disease in the United States. The Flu Epidemic of 1918 examines the impact of the outbreak on health, medicine, government, and individual peoples lives, and also explores the puzzle of Americans decades-long silence about the experience once it was over. In a concise narrative bolstered by primary sources, including newspaper articles, eyewitness accounts, and government reports, Sandra Opdycke provides undergraduates with an unforgettable introduction to the 1918 epidemic and its aftereffects.
Sandra Opdycke is the Associate Director at the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy at Vassar College.
Critical Moments in American History
Edited by William Thomas Allison, Georgia Southern University
The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn
Custers Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture
Debra Buchholtz
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Political Trauma and American Memory
Alice L. George
Freedom to Serve
Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981
Jon E. Taylor
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry
Melissa Walker
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Threshold of Nuclear War
Alice L. George
The Nativist Movement in America
Religious Conflict in the 19th Century
Katie Oxx
The 1980 Presidential Election
Ronald Reagan and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement
Jeffrey D. Howison
The Louisiana Purchase
A Global Context
Robert D. Bush
The Fort Pillow Massacre
North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era
Bruce Tap
From Selma to Montgomery
The Long March to Freedom
Barbara Combs
The Homestead Strike
Labor, Violence, and American Industry
Paul E. Kahan
The Flu Epidemic of 1918
Americas Experience in the Global Health Crisis
Sandra Opdycke
First published 2014
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2014 Taylor & Francis
The right of Sandra Opdycke to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Opdycke, Sandra.
The flu epidemic of 1918: Americas experience in the global health crisis/Sandra Opdycke.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Influenza Epidemic, 19181919. 2. Influenza Epidemic, 19181919United States. 3. InfluenzaUnited States Management. 4. Medical policyUnited StatesInternational
Cooperation. I. Title.
RC150.4.O63 2014
614.51809041dc23
2013038142
ISBN: 978-0-415-63684-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-63685-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07772-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo and Helvetica Neue
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK
This book is dedicated to my dear stepdaughters:
Susan, Deb, Meg, Sarah, and Fanny
Contents
Welcome to the Routledge Critical Moments in American History series. The purpose of this new series is to give students a window into the historians craft through concise, readable books by leading scholars, who bring together the best scholarship and engaging primary sources to explore a critical moment in the American past. In discovering the principal points of the story in these books, gaining a sense of historiography, following a fresh trail of primary documents, and exploring suggested readings, students can then set out on their own journey, to debate the ideas presented, interpret primary sources, and reach their own conclusionsjust like the historian.
A critical moment in history can be a range of thingsa pivotal year, the pinnacle of a movement or trend, or an important event such as the passage of a piece of legislation, an election, a court decision, or a battle. It can be social, cultural, political, or economic. It can be heroic or tragic. Whatever they are, such moments are, by definition, game changers, momentous changes in the pattern of the American fabric, paradigm shifts in the American experience. Many of the critical moments explored in this series are familiar; some less so.
There is no ultimate list of critical moments in American historyany group of students, historians, or other scholars may come up with a different catalog of topics. These differences of view, however, are what make history itself and the study of history so important and so fascinating. Therein can be found the utility of historical inquiryto explore, to challenge, to understand, and to realize the legacy of the past through its influence on the present. It is the hope of this series to help students realize this intrinsic value of our past and of studying our past.
William Thomas Allison
Georgia Southern University
FIGURES
TABLES
I would like to express my appreciation, first, to the thousands of individuals who have enhanced our understanding of the 1918 flu epidemic by recounting their own experiences with it. Some of them recorded their impressions at the timein letters, diaries, professional journals, and newspaper interviewswhile others unburdened themselves only years later, when revived interest in the epidemic gave them new opportunities to share their memories. We are fortunate indeed to have such a vivid record of what it meant to live through one of the great health crises in American history.
I would also like to pay tribute to Alfred Crosby, who was the first professional historian to give serious study to this long-untold story. His 1976 book, Epidemics and Peace (later republished as Americas Forgotten Pandemic), highlighted a vital event in our historyan event that many other scholars have since explored in productive ways. This volume has benefited from all their work.
For help in the preparation of this book, I am grateful to the staff at the National Archives, to Genevieve Aoki at Routledge, and to my most valued editorial advisersmy sister Karen Smith, my colleague Marque Miringoff, and my cherished husband Leo Opdycke.
1510First well-documented influenza epidemic in historyalthough descriptions of outbreaks that sound like this disease go back to ancient times.
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