Humanity's greatest predator: A laboratory recreation of the H1N1 virus that killed untold millions in 1918. Credit: BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty The coronavirus is nothing next to the ...

On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu, the ...

What happened here and in the world that fall and winter of 1918-19 can make it sound like history does indeed repeat itself. But it doesn’t. A century ago - in the fall of 1918 - Sonoma County was ...

Sometimes, in our careers, we are lucky enough to hit on a topic that becomes more than work, a life force of its own, a passion. In 2004, I was searching for an MA research project in Maynooth, and ...

As a medical historian, I have never been busier. Over the past 20 months, journalists and policy makers have reached out in an effort to understand what past infectious diseases might teach us about ...

1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict. In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass ...

Account of the opposition movement to the imposition of conscription on Ireland by the British Government during the First World War. World War I broke out on 28 July 1914, pitting an alliance ...