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15 mag 2019 · In this January 15, 1919, file photo, the ruins of tanks containing 2.5 million gallons of molasses lie in a heap after an eruption that hurled trucks against buildings and crumpled houses in the ...
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25 feb 2021 · Beginning on May 31, 1921, mobs of white residents attacked Black residents and businesses in Tulsa's thriving Greenwood neighborhood. The violence continued for at least 18 hours, leaving dozens ...
- Investment in World War I Memorials
- 1918 Influenza Memorials—Far Fewer and Built Later
- World War I Pride vs. Medical Failure
For an event to become entrenched in the collective memory, it requires the public to be actively engaged in remembering it, according to Maria Luisa Lima and José Manuel Sobral in Societies Under Threat: A Pluri-Disciplinary Approach. This happens through referencing the event among family members and in everyday conversations, as well as commemor...
While hundreds of World War I monuments and memorials have been lost to time, very few dedicated structures and sculptures commemorating civilian lives lost in the 1918 pandemic were built in the first place. Some of the closest equivalents are World War I memorials that include soldiers who died from influenza. The “Flu Epidemic Monument” at Camp ...
Why such a discrepancy between World War I and pandemic memorials? One factor may be pride: World War I was seen as a show of military strength, while the 1918 pandemic was perceived as a weakness. As much as American medicine and public health had been progressing, the medical field wasn’t able to defeat the deadly influenza strain. “In an age whe...
4 apr 2020 · April 4, 2020. ‘Everybody was so afraid’. A century after an earlier pandemic, oral history projects have preserved the voices of those who survived. Nearly everyone who survived the 1918 flu...
19 ago 2021 · Read: A clue to why the 1918 pandemic came back stronger than before Some similarities exist between now and 1918 —the economic costs of quarantine and the fears that each virus inspired ...
10 mar 2022 · What happened when the 1918 flu pandemic met WWI. Health Mar 10, 2022 4:28 PM EDT. When it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is safe to say that no one wins if the conflict helps...
