Statistics & Stories

Statistics and Stories is a Virginia Tech course project examining how the 1918 Influenza Epidemic affected American soldiers during World War I. The project examines quantitative evidence about the impact of the flu from the Medical Department of the United States Army and tells the stories of Virginia soldiers who died of disease during and after the final months of the war. 

American Soldiers and the 1918 Flu: Posters (link)

More information about the class project is available here:
"Revealing Data: American Soldiers and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic," Circulating Now, November 8, 2024 (link)

 Image: Base Hospital, France (National Library Medicine)