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History Matters: Pandemic Of 1918

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published February 13, 2018 at 7:45 AM CST
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Historical photo of the 1918 Spanish influenza ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, showing the many patients ill with the flu
U.S. Army photographer
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 7:45 p.m. Commentator Gary Joiner takes us back to 1918 and the Flu Pandemic that swept the world leaving millions dead.
 
History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.
 

Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu".
Credit Harris & Ewing photographers

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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