1918 Flu Pandemic

Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.

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