How did Atchison react to a pandemic that hit right at the end of a World War? Patrick and Kia go through the story of the Spanish Influenza using the Atchison Globe records from 1918, and show how our community has gone through hard times before.

Librarian Historians: The Spanish Flu in Atchison

Librarians Patrick Glancy and Kia Boyd are your inexperienced and ridiculous hosts on the podcasts made by the Atchison Public Library. In Librarian Historians, they guide you through the people and events that have shaped the history of Atchison, Kansas (presented by the Atchison Public Library with a grant from Humanities Kansas). In Tails and Tales: LoreLibrarians, they tell each other stories that have to involve animals as a part of the Summer Reading Program 2021 (an homage to a favorite popular podcast, Loremen). There's nothing like local librarians creating internet content....

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Librarian Historians: The Spanish Flu in Atchison

Librarian Historians: The Spanish Flu in Atchison