History is Awesome!

I'm just listening to this right now:

Episode 20 of Nature's Past, the Canadian environmental history podcast, is
now online.

Toward the end of the Great War, Canadians were struck by the most devastating influenza epidemic in the young country's history. More than 50,000 Canadians succumbed to this virulent strain of influenza that swept the globe in 1918 and 1919. Nearly as many Canadians died from this disease as those who were killed in combat overseas during the First World War. While the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919 has received recent scholarly attention outside of Canada, Canadian historians have only begun to examine
the social consequences of this devastating event.

To learn more about the impact of this epidemic in Canada, we speak with Esyllt Jones about her book Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg.

Download this episode (or listen to it online).

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Do you listen to History podcasts? I enjoy them but I'm very picky about them. If you do, what do you like?