Displaying 5 items of The Year That Was with the tag "spanish flu".
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Do You Expect Us to Turn Back Now: Alice Paul and the Fight for Woman Suffrage
June 28th, 2020 | Season 1 | 55 mins 48 secs
1919, alice paul, american history, season 1, spanish flu, woman suffrage, woman's history
Women in the United States began fighting for the right to vote in 1848, and by 1910 they had achieved a few hard-won victories. But success nationwide seemed out of reach. Then Alice Paul arrived on the scene with a playbook of radical protest strategies and an indomitable will. She focused in on one target: the president, Woodrow Wilson. How far would Paul and her fellow suffragists have to go to get Wilson's support?
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Flu Fences and Chin Sails: Answering New Questions about the Spanish Flu
May 26th, 2020 | Season 1 | 55 mins 28 secs
1919, african-american history, american history, labor, medicine, red scare, science, season 1, spanish flu
Living through the COVID-19 pandemic raises all sorts of new questions about the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919. This episode seeks to answer those questions. We look at the multiple waves of the flu, popular home remedies, who went to the hospital and who stayed home, how the federal government responded to the outbreak, the effect on the economy, resistance to face masks, and how the flu shaped the Roaring Twenties.
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Say It Ain't So: The Black Sox Scandal and Baseball in 1919
May 5th, 2020 | Season 1 | 59 mins 48 secs
1919, american history, baseball, labor, season1, spanish flu, world war i
Baseball was the only truly national American sport in 1919, loved by fans across the United States. But the mood among players was grim--team owners kept salaries artificially low. When the Chicago White Sox won their league championship, the temptation to accept hard cash from gamblers to deliberately lose the World Series was irresistible. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
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Radical and Agitator: William Monroe Trotter and the Fight for Justice
February 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 59 mins 9 secs
1919, african-american history, american history, lynching, race riots, radicals, red summer, season1, spanish flu
William Monroe Trotter was among the richest, best-educated, and most-well-connected African-American men in the United States--and he dedicated every ounce of his privilege into helping his fellow black Americans. By 1919, he had fought with the elder statesmen of his community, been arrested in protests over "Birth of a Nation," and denounced Woodrow Wilson's racial policies to president's face. But 1919 would bring one of Trotter's greatest challenges: he would need to learn how to peel potatoes.
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No Cause for Panic: The Spanish Flu Pandemic
October 15th, 2019 | Season 1 | 43 mins 8 secs
1919, american history, history, india, ireland, season 1, spanish flu, world history
The emergence of the flu virus that swept the globe between 1918 and 1920 was entirely unexpected, but the resulting pandemic can't be called an entirely natural disaster. Governments made decisions that made the flu much, much worse, and those decisions would have long-lasting consequences--and leave between 50 and 100 million dead.