Dressing for an Edwardian Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918
byAs the influenza pandemic, known colloquially as “la grippe” or the Spanish Flu, spread across the globe, governments and health officials immediately began to…
WWI
The Silent March That Shook American Race Relations 100 Years Ago
byAmidst the patriotic fervor whipped up by President Woodrow Wilson’s declaration of war against Germany was the continuing racial violence and racism against African…
America and the Great War
byOn April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war on Germany and the Central Powers. Unlike Europeans, during that fateful summer of 1914,…