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The Crash of 1929
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Molly Billings, June, 1997 modified RDS February, 2005 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as “Spanish Flu” or “La Grippe” the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. The Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down…
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Workers on the Panama Canal
The Workers In the decade-long American effort to construct the Panama Canal, tens of thousands of laborers Panama Canal Museum Canal laborers head to work worked, sacrificed and died while building the largest canal the world had seen to date. Combating harsh terrain, disease, and deplorable living conditions, workers from around the world held a variety of different jobs in the canal zone, their pay and quality of life often directly related to their ethnicity. Long before the U.S. attempt at building the Panama Canal began in 1904, workers from around the world had been coming to the isthmus. In the early 1850s, the Panama Railroad Company imported thousands…
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JFK: A New Generation (3:57) John F. Kennedy’s progressive agenda during the 1960s inspired a new generation of optimism in America.