Freshman Focus Flu
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This page is meant to be a catch-all place for ideas, resources, and collaboration on incorporating the book Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Cause It, by Gina Kolata into targeted classes. At some point, this page may intersect the WSU Common Reading Program Faculty Resources page.
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Flu Themes
Annotated Bibliography Ideas
What is an Annotation? This resource outlines the process of annotating an information source. On the second page, there is a sample annotation of an article from the Historical New York Times database about the 1918 flu.
Find more information on the 1918 pandemic with this research guide. The guide provides you with information for finding digital collections, reference sources, historical newspaper articles, books, and journal articles on this topic. Flu Resources @ the WSU Libraries
Life in 1918 Multimedia
- (film clip) San Francisco celebrates VE Day 1918
- (film clip) Shoulder Arms, silent film by Charlie Chaplin, 1918
- (film clip) American Goes Over (Part 1) Government produced film of WWI battles.
- (lecture, slideshow) Thomas Mullen discusses his book, The Last Town on Earth. Especially interesting because it focuses on the Pacific Northwest.
- (music, slideshow) A catchy tune about the pandemic with pictures from the time. This was a student project posted on YouTube.
- (music, slideshow, text) Pandemic 1918 presents photos of primary documents associated with the times set to a quirky song. Toward the end of the film, reference is made to the impending bird flu.
- (film) Remembering the 1918 Flu Epidemic. An excellent 25 minute documentary by the US Government on the impact of the Spanish Flu on the African American community of Boston.
- (slide show and narration) A New York Times production, The 1918 Flu: Lessons from a Past Pandemic, documents events during the flu outbreak, citing articles from their newspaper, showing photographs, statistical graphs and other visual aids. Relates the outbreak to the Bird Flu.
Can You Find It? Resources mentioned in the text of Flu.
page 1
- reference to a NYT article of 1997 by Gina Kolata, author of Flu, which refers to an article which appeared in Science (Historical New York Times)
page 8
- an almanac from 1918 (in the library)
page 10
- primary evidence of European countries supressing information about the pandemic before it hit America
- (Historical New York Times)
page 13
- article that appeared in the British Medical Journal, December 1979
- (print journal in library)
page 19
- article that appeared apparently in 1918 in the Journal of the American Medical Association advising people not to be alarmed at the "Spanish flu"
- (print journal in library)
page 25
- passage described from one of Thomas Wolfe's books in which a character dies from the flu
- (Look Homeward Angel)
page 45
- evidence of the British 1832 epidemic (Kolata cites this as another "forgotten" flu)
page 48
- the article from Ladies' Home Journal discussing the new use of the parlor
- (print or microform magazine in library)
page 52
- Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature volumes for 1918 and 1919
- (Holland Terrell Library reference area)