1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic Resource Guide
Overviews
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History John M. Barry New York: Viking, 2004 ISBN: 978-0-14-303649-4
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History Catharine Arnold New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-250-13943-6
1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics
America/Europe
America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 Alfred W. Crosby New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN: 978-0521541756
Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I Carol R. Byerly New York: New York University Press, 2005 ISBN: 978-0814799246
The Flu Epidemic of 1918: America’s Experience in the Global Health Crisis Sandra Opdycke New York: Routledge, 2014 ISBN: 978-0415636858
Global Focus/Multi-Region
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World By Laura Spinney New York: Public Affairs, 2017 ISBN: 978-1610397674
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives Howard Phillips and David Killingray New York: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 2003 ISBN: 978-0-414-51079-0
Primary Source Documents
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Brief History with Documents By Susan Kingsley Kent Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-312-67708-4
Books for Middle School Students/High School Students
More Deadly than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War By Kenneth C. Davis New York: Henry Holt Company, 2018 ISBN: 978-1250145123
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 By Albert Marrin New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 ISBN: 978-1101931462
Novels
As Bright as Heaven By Susan Meissner New York, Penguin 2018 ISBN: 978-0-399-58597-5
Articles on Influenza in Asia
1. Influenza in Japan “Pandemic Influenza in Japan, 1918-19: Mortality Patterns and Official Responses.” Geoffrey W. Rice and Edwina Palmer. Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, pp. 389–420.
2. “Spanish influenza in Japanese armed forces, 1918-1920” Akihiko Kawana, Go Naka, Yuji Fujikura, Yasuyuki Kato, Yasutaka Mizuno and Tatsuya Kondo. Emerging Infectious DiseasesVol. 13, Issue 4.
3. Influenza in Korea “Pandemic Influenza in Korea: With Special Reference to its Etiology.” Frank W. Schofield, D.V.Sc; H. C. Cynn, M.B. Journal of the American Medical Association. April 1919.
4. Influenza in India “Influenza in India: An Epicenter of an Epidemic” Kenneth Hill. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
5. “Mortality from the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: the Case of India” Siddharth Chandra; Goran Kuljanin, Jennifer Wray Demography, 08/2012, Vol 49, Issue 3
6. Influenza in China “What Happened in China During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic?” K.F. Cheng, P.C. Leung. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Vol.11, Issue 4, July 2007. Pgs. 360364.
