Welcome to The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia
This project is an undertaking of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine to create a virtual collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States. This virtual collection will include approximately 50,000 pages of original materials that document the experiences of diverse communities in the United States in fall 1918 and winter 1919 when flu took the lives of approximately 675,000 Americans.
This virtual collection is aimed at a wide-ranging audience that encompasses high school and college students, historians and social scientists, epidemiologists and public health practitioners, journalists and writers, and informed internet users.
Scanning of materials began in October 2009. A public release of the encyclopedia is planned for Fall 2012. In the meantime, you can keep up with the project on Twitter @1918FluArchive.