Interpreting the Past: The Pandemic of 1918 Start

Interpreting the Past: The Pandemic of 1918 Start Assignment

One of the main jobs of historians is to interpret the past by reviewing primary documents, scholarly secondary sources, and then creating an analysis of this research. After reading your text and reviewing the assigned materials, submit an analysis of the Spanish Flu of 1918. Beginning in 1918, an illness that came to be known as the Spanish Flu began making its way around the world and resulted in the deaths of over 25 million people worldwide. You have lived your last 18 months through the current Covid pandemic.

You might want to consider the following questions, but you are not limited to them: How was the pandemic of 1918 different from typical cases of influenza and previous pandemics? How did it spread so rapidly? What can we learn from this event? What did we learn from this event moving into the Covid pandemic? What will historians and history students in the future learn from the Covid pandemic?