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Adams, John
Admiral Dot
African Americans, flu impact on
age
death influenced by
Disney lying about
Agramonte, Aristide
Alaskan natives
Alaskan sod houses (barabaras)
alcohol. See also whiskey
Alexander the Great
Alfonso XIII, King
Alien Enemy Bureau
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
Alma-Tademah, Lawrence
alveoli
American Expeditionary Forces
American Medical Association
American Peace Commission
American Protective League
American Revolution
ammunition
killing power of
new forms of
production of
types of
anthrax
antibiotics
antiseptics
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Apollo
Arctic Circle
Aristotle
Armistice Day. See Veterans Day
Armstrong, James F.
Army, U.S.
Army Medical Corps, U.S.
Army Nurse Corps
aspirin
assassination, of Ferdinand
avian flu (bird flu)
Aztec people
“bad air”. See also miasma
barabaras (Alaskan sod houses)
Bardi, Jason Socrates
Barnum, P. T.
Barry, John M.
conclusions from
on defenses
on transportation
Barton, Clara
the Bayer Company
Berg, A. Scott
Beyrer, Chris
Biberstein, Frank
bird flu (avian flu)
birds
death of
flu carried by
birth defects
Black Death. See plague
blood, as blue
bloodletting
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bolshevik revolution
The Bond
Boston City Hospital
Brest, port of
Brevig Mission
Bristow, Nancy K.
British Expeditionary Force
Brittain, Vera
Broad Street Pump
bubonic plague. See plague
Byerly, Carol R.
Camp Devens
conditions at
death toll at
hospital ward at
nurses at
outbreak at
soldiers training at
Camp Funston
death toll at
horses at
hospital overcrowding at
Carroll, James
CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cease-fire treaty (Germany)
censorship, by government officials
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chandler, Howard Christy
Chaplin, Charlie
chemical gas
child labor laws
children, orphaned
flu responsible for
jobs done by
cholera
outbreak depiction of
spreading of
symptoms of
cholera bacillus
Christianity
Civil War, American
Clemenceau, Georges
Cleveland, Grover
Cleveland, Rose
climate change
coal production
Cohan, George M.
cold virus
Cole, Rufus
collective amnesia
Collier, Richard
Committee on Public Information
Commonwealth Pier
conscription (military draft)
Coolidge, Calvin
corpses
diseases spread from
finding
as impossible to bury
piles of
unearthing
cough
cowpox
Creel, George
cremation, as illegal
Crosby, Alfred W.
on public knowledge
virgin soil epidemics by
cross-contamination
Crow, Jim
Crowder, Enoch
cyanosis
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand)
Davis, Richard Harding
The Death of the Pharaoh’s Firstborn
Decameron (Boccaccio)
dengue
Diamond, Jared
diplomacy
diseases. See also specific types
American continents spared
ancient ideas about
Army investigating
cause of spread of
complexities behind
corpses spreading
depiction of fear of
events shaped by
immune system triggered by
immunity to
lungs attacked by
medicines limiting
mosquitoes carrying
natural disasters spreading
social disintegration from
Spanish conquistadors bringing
as tropical
war alongside
in water
Disney, Walt
age lied about by
flu had by
logo for
doctors
confusion of
contagiousness researched by
deaths of
desperate need for
flu contracted by
human experiments by
requirements for
warnings from
in WWI
doughboys. See soldiers
Drank, Lee
dreadnoughts
dysentery
Ebola virus
Egyptian mummies
Ehrlich, Paul
Eiffel Tower
Ellis Island
Enlightenment
epidemics. See also virgin soil epidemics
armies decimated by
breeding ground for
end of
experience with
as localized
from miasma
significance of
taming of
factories
production of
women working in
Fairbanks, Douglas
fake news
family feuds
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Fenn, Elizabeth
Ferdinand, Francis, assassination of
fever
reality altered by
spike in
Finlay, Carlos J.
Flagg, James Montgomery
Flanders, battle of
Flanders fever. See also Spanish influenza
Fleming, Alexander
flu. See Spanish influenza
Food Administration, U.S.
Fort Riley
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Minute Men
Fourteen Points for Peace
Foveaux, Jessie Lee Brown
Franklin, Benjamin
Freedman, Russell
Frost, Robert
fund-raising, propaganda fueling
fungi
Gamble, Vanessa Northington
garlic
Geneva Convention (1864)
George V, King
germ theory
Germans
as barbarians
flu hitting
propaganda depiction of
rations for
Gibson, Ernest W.
Gish, Lillian
Gitchell, Albert
Givner, Joan
global commerce
globalization
Gorgas, William C.
Grayson, Cary T.
Great War. See World War I
grippe. See also Spanish influenza
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)
Hall, Joe
hand washing
Harding, Warren G.
Hastings, Max
headaches
healthy carriers
Hemingway, Ernest
Herodotus
Hindenburg Line
Hine, Lewis
Hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Hitler, Adolf
HIV/AIDS
Hochschild, Adam
Hollywood
Holocaust
home remedies
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, Ike
Hopps, Harry R.
hospitals, racial segregation of
House, Edward
House of Windsor
“How ’Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm”
Hultin, Johan
human body, composition of
human experiments
humors
Huns. See Germans
Ibn Khaldūn
ignorance
Iliad
immigration laws
immune system
diseases triggering
power of
strength of
“In Flanders Fields”
inhalation therapy
injuries, combat
inoculation
ipecac syrup
isolationism
Jenner, Edward
Jewish people, as scapegoats
jingle dress dances
jump rope song
Jünger, Ernst
Justinian plague
Kahn, Leopold S.
Kahn, Otto
Kancianich, Lillian
Kendall, Paul
Kindermord bei Ypern (Murder of the Children of Ypres)
kissing
KKK. See Ku Klux Klan
Koch, Robert
Kolata, Gina
Korean War
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Lazear, Jesse W.
League of Nations. See United Nations
Legionnaires disease
Leuven, Belgium
Leviathan
Liberty Loans
campaign for
morale heightened by
parades promoting
pressure to buy
Lister, Joseph
Lloyd George, David
Lopes, Marina
Ludendorff, Erich
lungs
disease attacking
functioning of
samples of
Lusitania
Lyme disease
Lynch, Eileen
MacMillan, Margaret
mad cow disease
“magic bullets”
Magner, Lois N.
malaria
Mallon, Mary
mapping genes
Marne, battle of
marriage
masks, gauze
efficiency of
instructions for
nurses preparing
police wearing
as required by law
as symbol of flu
mass graves
Mather, Cotton
Max of Baden, Prince
May, Henry A.
McCarthy, Mary
McCrae, John
McCullough, David
McKenna, Maryn
measles
media
limitations of
panic spread by
medical ethics
medical history, milestones in
medicines. See also home remedies; plant-based medicines; vaccines
diseases limited by
stockpiling of
symptoms eased by
transformation in
as useless
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy)
Meuse-Argonne offensive
miasma
Mickey Mouse
microbes
microscopes
military draft (conscription)
Miner, Loring
Miroff, Nick
mobilization
of American soldiers
of German soldiers
Moline, Brad
morale
collapse of
Liberty Loans heightening
maintaining
parades boosting
Morens, David M.
mosquitoes
diseases carried by
eradicated breeding of
yellow fever spread by
Munch, Edvard
Murder of the Children of Ypres (Kindermord bei Ypern)
muscle aches
Naples Soldier. See also Spanish influenza
National Institutes of Health
nationalism
Native Americans
natural disasters
natural resources
Navarro, Julian A.
Navy, U.S., recruiting poster for
neutralism
New Testament book of Revelation
New York City
newspapers
Nicholas II, Czar (Russia)
Nightingale, Florence
9/11 terror attacks
Noves, Laura de
nurses. See also Army Nurse Corps; Visiting Nurses
masks prepared by
poster recruiting
profession of
racial discrimination of
request for more
teaching by
training of
orphan asylums
Ottoman Empire
“Over There”
oxygen
in bloodstream
lack of
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Porter)
Panama Canal
pandemics
first recorded
return of
risk equation for
understanding of
panic
preventing
suspicion leading to
as widespread
parades
Liberty Loans promoted by
morale boosted by
parasites
Pasteur, Louis
pasteurization
patriotism
Payne, Mart
Peloponnesian War
penicillin
Pershing, John, J.
Pfeiffer’s bacillus
Pickford, Mary
Pilgrims
plague. See also Justinian plague
benefits of
as crowd disease
death from
depictions of
origin of
transmission of
variations of
plant-based medicines
Plato
pneumonia
pneumonic plague. See plague
polio
Porter, Katherine Anne
flu had by
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by
postwar dealings
poverty
prejudice, overcoming of
price gouging
Princip, Gavrilo
Prohibition
propaganda
antidote to
for disease prevention
fund-raising fueled by
Germans depicted in
hatred created by
public opinion shaped by
for Wilson
Protestant Reformation
Public Health Service, U.S.
Purple Death. See also Spanish influenza
Purviance, Helen
Quammen, David
quarantine
camps under
coordinating of
principles of
racial segregation as
of ships
rabies
racial segregation
rations
for Germans
receiving of field
rats
recruiting, posters for
Red Cloud family
Red Cross
posters for
of St. Louis, Motor Corps
Red Cross Ambulance Service, American
Red Scare
Reed, Walter
Reid, Ann
Remarque, Erich Maria
Renaissance
Richard, Charles
Rockefeller Institute
Roman Empire
Röntgen, Wilhelm
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ross, Clarence Crump
Rostand, Edmond
Russian Revolution
saliva, cough expelling
Salvation Army
SARS. See Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Schiele, Egon
schools
closing of
flu influence on
scourges
The Scream
season, of flu
Sedition Act, U.S.
Selective Service Act
Self Portrait after Spanish Influenza
Senior, Kathryn
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Sheldon, Margaret
ships. See also Leviathan; Lusitania
attacks on
as flu incubators
infected soldiers on
quarantine of
travel on
upgrading
“slackers”
slavery
smallpox. See also cowpox
spreading of
storing of
vaccine for
Washington having
snake oil
sneezing
Snow, John
social disintegration, from diseases
socialism
soldiers
causes of death of
conditions for
heroism of
mobilization of American
mobilization of German
surrendering of
training at Camp Devens
travel of infected
as young
Somme, Battle of the
Spanish conquistadors
Spanish influenza (flu)
African Americans impacted by
birds carrying
cartoon depicting
consequences from
death toll from
discoveries after
Disney having
doctors contracting
drug company employees during
emergency fund created for
false disappearance of
fear of
first cases of
forgetting of
in France
global circulation of
heroes made by
ignition points for
investigation into
lessons learned from
masks as symbol of
in New York City
in newspapers
origin of
orphaned children from
outbreaks of
Porter having
preventing of
questions surrounding
rapid duration of
remedies for
return of
Roosevelt, F. D., having
schools influenced by
season of
ships as incubators for
societal change from
spreading of
strains of
sudden onset of
susceptibility to
symptoms of
travel responsible for
in trenches
virus reconstruction of
warning posters for
waves of
Wilson having
word origins for
WWI influencing
Spanish Lady. See also Spanish influenza
Spanish-American War
spitting
steel production
Stokowski, Leopold
Straight, Willard
streptomycin
strychnine
susceptibility, groups with high
syphilis
Tannenberg, battle of
Taubenberger, Jeffery
taxis, from Marne
terrorism. See also 9/11 terror attacks
Thermopylae
Thompson, Arne
throat soreness
Thucydides
trade
trains
infected soldiers on
travel on
travel
brought about by war
flu contracted through
of infected soldiers
on ships
on trains
Treasury, U.S.
bonds from
stamps of
trenches
flu in
during WWI
Trump, Donald
Trump, Frederick
tuberculosis
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
typhoid fever
Typhoid Mary. See Mallon, Mary
U-boats
UN. See United Nations
Uncle Sam
United Nations (UN)
United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)
vaccination. See also inoculation
vaccines
for anthrax
facts challenging
for flu
for pneumonia
for polio
production of
for smallpox
stockpiling of
van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni
Vaughan, Victor
Versailles Treaty
Veterans Day
Victoria, Queen
Vietnam War
virgin soil epidemics
viruses
as aggressive
as jumping
mutating of
reproducing of
resistance of
searching for
seen with microscopes
solutions to
spreading of
understanding of
Visiting Nurses
voting rights, of women
Wall Street
Wallace, James H.
Wallbach, Simeon
war bonds. See Liberty Loans
war fever
War of 1812
Washington, George
Welch, William Henry
West Nile virus
whiskey
WHO. See United Nations World Health Organization
Wilhelm, Kaiser, II
Wilson, Woodrow
campaign of
dream of
flu had by
negotiations made by
negotiations rejected by
opera liked by
peace intention of
persistence of
silence from
war called for by
“Win the War for Freedom” march
Winthrop, John
Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense
women
factory work of
voting rights of
World War I (WWI)
ambulance drivers during
artifacts destroyed in
beginning of
countries participating in
death toll from
declaration of
doctors in
end of
expansion of
experience desired from
flu influenced by
milestones in
as priority
soldiers serving
training for
trenches during
U.S., cost of
U.S., entering
World War II (WWII)
Wrigley, Martha
WWI. See World War I
WWII. See World War II
x-ray
yellow fever
board for
conquering of
deaths from
experimenting with
images depicting
as localized
mosquitoes spreading
Zika virus
Zimmerman telegram
zoonosis