Genealogy Journeys Podcast #59 - WWI and The Spanish Flu

Sara Cochran joins Jean Wilcox Hibben for this discussion on how World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic had effects on each other.

St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty Oct. 1918 Influenza epidemic.

Photo from Library of Congress

Resources used to gather information for the podcast:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

https://theconversation.com/world-war-ones-role-in-the-worst-ever-flu-pandemic-29849

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-and-its-relation-to-the-first-world-war/

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

https://bayviewcompass.com/dr-lewis-%E2%80%94-pathologist-gave-life-working-to-save-lives/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-philadelphia/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22148/

https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/National/history-full-history.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_employment_01.shtml

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/women-in-wwi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_World_War_I

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-women-in-the-first-world-war

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/26439020

https://history.delaware.gov/exhibits/online/WWI/Women-roles-ww1.shtml

http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-i-1914-1918

https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/women-at-home

https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/about-jane-addams/

http://westerncivguides.umwblogs.org/2015/12/11/female-spies-in-wwi/

https://www.thoughtco.com/female-spies-of-the-world-wars-3530435

https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/femalespies.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_I

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/women-of-empire-in-wartime

digital copy of Women of the Empire in Wartime: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/14463/view/1/1/

John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, New York: Penguin Books, 2004. (available from Amazon in Kindle format)