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What Pandemic?: Physical Memorialization Of The 1918 Pandemic, Carly M. Kauffman
What Pandemic?: Physical Memorialization Of The 1918 Pandemic, Carly M. Kauffman
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Throughout history there have been many significant events the people find worth remembering. Some of these events are significant enough that people build structures to honor, commemorate, or memorialize them. However, there are some events that are also significant, yet they seem to warrant little or no memorialization. In the United States' historical narrative, it seems that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 is forgotten among the chaotic period of World War I and the interwar years. The lack of traditional memorials dedicated to the 1918 Pandemic can be attributed to the lack of acknowledgement of the pandemic in terms of …