<h1>Episode Notes</h1>
<p>This week in 1918... A century before the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re all intimately familiar with, a deadly influenza ravaged the nation and the world. Near the end of World War I, it began in Virginia on army bases, and soon spread throughout the state. As illnesses grew and grew, it hit Charlottesville and Albemarle County hard in early October.</p>

Episode Notes This week in 1918... A century before the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re all intimately familiar with, a deadly influenza ravaged the nation and the world. Near the end of World War I, it began in Virginia on army bases, and soon spread throughout the state. As illnesses grew and grew, it hit Charlottesville and Albemarle County hard in early October.

Episode Notes
<p>This week in 1918... A century before the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re all intimately familiar with, a deadly influenza ravaged the nation and the world. Near the end of World War I, it began in Virginia on army bases, and soon spread throughout the state. As illnesses grew and grew, it hit Charlottesville and Albemarle County hard in early October.</p>

Week of October 5: Charlottesville banned all public gatherings

Sure, Virginia history includes big moments, big battles, and big names. But the richer history is full of smaller events occurring in the fullness of time. The disenfranchised, the nonconformists, and just regular people making Virginia history. Week in, week out. This Week in Virginia History explores those stories, curated by Nathan Moore and culled from the vast archives at Encyclopedia Virginia.

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