Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast

Episode 27: What Lies Beneath, How the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Changed American Cemeteries and What We Can Learn From It


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The 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak was the worst pandemic in modern history, some argue even worse than the Black Plague based on population. How did this catastrophic event that killed 675,000 Americans shape our cemeteries? How have cemeteries helped us better understand what happened in 1918 and learn from it?

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Check out Emily Ford's account of the 1918 epidemic in New Orleans:

https://www.oakandlaurel.com/blog/the-influenza-epidemic-of-1918-in-new-orleans 

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Tomb With A View: A Cemetery PodcastBy Liz Clappin

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