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Here to talk with us about what we became known 102 years ago as spanish flu is Catherine Arnold who poured over eyewitness accounts of the illness from its early beginnings at places like a military base in kansas to its effects on a number of american writers like John Steinbeck. She read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology and is the author of several books about the history oflondon and her book globe, the world of shakespeares london published by simon and schuster in 2015 and shes joining us today from the uk. Welcome catherine. Thank you for b...

I never really thought much about the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people get sick and get better again. I never been interested in it at all but a few years ago im a reporter from the New York Times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. There was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was writing in a technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about hi...

Also stealing this line from another friend of the museum, doctor, dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] so, ladies and gentlemen, do remember that, also, we did get the wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other countries around the world. Also, a nice little psa. Do not forget saturday into sunday, we will fall back and you get one extra hour of sleep. Maybe it means you get to enjoy even hardier this evenings dinner. Now, i am ...

Also stealing this line from another doctor, dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] so, ladies and gentlemen, do also, we did get that wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other countries around the world. Also, a nice little psa. Do not forget saturday into sunday, we will fall back and you get one extra hour of sleep. Maybe it means you get to enjoy even hardier this evenings dinner. Now, i am so pleased to introduce our next spe...

Programming exploring our nations past. Next, historian Nancy Bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. She also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. Ms. Bristow is the author of american pandemic. Museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that is my cue and getthis direction our introduction for our next speaker. Also, i would li...