Pandemic 1918

by Catharine Arnold

In the final part of her Ship of Death essay, Catharine Arnold wraps up the tragic

by Catharine Arnold

With the death toll rising from Spanish flu, burials at sea became more and more common

by Catharine Arnold

As conditions worsen on the USS Leviathan in October of 1918, another troopship, the Briton,

by Catharine Arnold

Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses the dark, cramped, and overall

by Catharine Arnold

In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic killed an