23- The Spanish Flu? A Horrible Pandemic, or a Hidden Data Point

Join us this week as we travel back in time to one of the worst and most well known devastatingly fatal diseases in human history: The Spanish flu. But that's not all we cover in this historic cultural episode; we take you through the beginnings of Fort Riley eventually evolving into the big red 1. So entertain your curiosity with us and take a ride down the perilous Santa Fe trail

0:00 Introduction: Fort Riley and It’s History

04:19 Violent massacres: the war between pro and anti slavery

07:41 The lives of confederate prisoners held behind the fort walls

12:07 9th & 10th Calvary training academy

14:26 The birth of the terrorizing disease claiming the lives of ⅓ of the US population

20:04 The ever growing outbreak of rapid deaths and burials

24:37 Facts and speculation collide: not just a training facility?

34:04 Final summarization involving a theatrical outro. Email us at investigatingwithus@gmail.com with any theories you may have

Recourses:

Fort Riley Official Website

https://home.army.mil/riley/about/history

U.S. Army Center of Military History

https://history.army.mil

Kansas Historical Society

https://www.kshs.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — 1918 Pandemic Overview

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html

National Institutes of Health — Scientific analysis of 1918 influenza

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291398/

Smithsonian Magazine — Kansas origin discussion

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

National Park Service — Bleeding Kansas overview

https://www.nps.gov/articles/bleeding-kansas.htm

Kansas Historical Society — Bleeding Kansas archives

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bleeding-kansas/14578

U.S. Army Center of Military History

https://history.army.mil

Library of Congress — WWI & WWII collections

https://www.loc.gov

1st Infantry Division Official Page

https://home.army.mil/riley/index.php/units-tenants/1st-infantry-division

Camp Concordia — POW Camp History

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/prisoners-of-war-in-kansas/16582

Smithsonian Institution — POW program overview

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/german-pows-america-180961088/

National WWII Museum — POWs in America

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/prisoners-of-war-us

Fort Detrick

https://home.army.mil/detrick

Dugway Proving Ground

https://home.army.mil/dugway

World Health Organization

https://www.who.int

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

https://www.cdc.gov

U.S. Army Center of Military History — Biographical info

https://history.army.mil

California State Library — California governance history

https://www.library.ca.gov

https://lplks.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2018/04/Hike-Through-History-Page-3.pdf

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