John M. Barry

Historian John M. Barry is the author of The Great Influenza and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, which received the 1998 Francis Parkman Prize for the best book of U.S. history.

An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918. “Of the 12 men who slept in my squad room, 7 were ill at one time,” a soldier recalled.

How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States

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