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Spanish Flu

Ship of Death: A Terrifying and Implacable Enemy

by Catharine Arnold

In the final part of her Ship of Death essay, Catharine Arnold wraps…
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Lessons from the AIDS Epidemic

by Jonathan D. Quick, MD, with Bronwyn Fryer

The 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the…
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Ship of Death: Rates on the Rise

by Catharine Arnold

With the death toll rising from Spanish flu, burials at sea became more…
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Ship of Death: Spanish Flu on the High Seas

by Catharine Arnold

As conditions worsen on the USS Leviathan in October of 1918, another troopship,…
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Ship of Death: “We Must Go At Any Cost”

by Catharine Arnold

Revisiting the American soldiers aboard the USS Leviathan, Catharine Arnold discusses the dark,…
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Ship of Death: The Tragic Tale of the USS Leviathan

SSLeviathan

by Catharine Arnold

In three successive waves, from spring 1918 to summer 1919, the ‘Spanish flu’…
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: An Indicator of Things to Come?

by Philip Jett

It was 1918 and there was a killer on the loose. Worse than…
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Spanish Flu

Daniel Boone’s Last Days

by Tom Clavin

On September 26, 1820, legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone died at the extraordinary age…
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I Hope You Are of Our Party: Fidelity and Betrayal

by Jack Kelly

Shakespeare, of course, wrote acclaimed plays about history. But sometimes history takes the…
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An American Hero Lost to History

Flee North by Scott Shane is a riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer…
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The Incredible Adventures of Two Sister Ships

by Nev March

The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret, the third book in my Captain Jim and Lady…
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Hold the Hill

by Tom Clavin

The Last Hill by Bob Drury and yours truly covers the dramatic campaigns…
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Revolutionary Bad Boy: Benedict Arnold, Treason, and Trust

by Jack Kelly

It was said about Benedict Arnold that he never did anything by halves.…
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The Tide of War

by Uri Kaufman

Some years, like 1776 and 1939, need no introduction; their reputations travel before…
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Capturing the Cross

by Tom Clavin

This year is the 150th anniversary of the taking of one of the…
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