Professor @UdelPacifico. PhD Human Development @UChicago. Studied History @Yale. Worked @ALIHarvard. Prefer asking questions, even in response to them.
May 31, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
The Spanish Flu pandemic passed through three waves from spring 1918 to early summer 1919. Comparisons have been made between it and #Covid19. But few know what happened in the United States as the pandemic faded in early-to-mid 1919. #historyrhymes 1/12
Let’s set the stage. In 1915, one year after the start of World War I, D.W. Griffith released Birth of a Nation, which tells the story of how southern whites founded the Ku Klux Klan and took their country back after the Civil War. #historyrhymes 2/12
