America's forgotten pandemic: the influenza of 1918

Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza

The great shadow

Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave

spring and summer, 1918

The advance of the influenza virus

Three explosions

Africa, Europe, and America

Part 3: The second and third waves

The United Sates begins to take note

Spanish influenza sweeps the country

Flu in Philadelphia

Flu in San Francisco

Flu at sea on the voyage to France

Flu and the American expeditionary force

Flu and the Paris Peace Conference

Part 4: Measurements, research, conclusions, and confusions

Statistics, definitions, and speculation

Samoa and Alaska

Research, frustration, and the isolation of the virus

Where did the Flu of 1918 go?

Part 5: Afterword

An inquiry into the peculiarities of human memory.