Teaching, Learning, and the Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu

More than 50 million people died during the Spanish flu epidemic. Farmers, shop owners, and teachers turned into nurses, pharmacists and grave diggers. We have had a crazy ride with Covid-19 but the realities the 1918 influenza epidemic can be lost in the history of the early 1900's: The War, The Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, Boll Weevils. We dive into the Spanish Flu and roast Philadelphia within an inch their life.