Flat, Cool & Acid-Free: The Spanish Flu of 1918 at OAMC

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 would impact campus, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College experienced a different pandemic. "In 1918, an unprepared nation and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College faced an invisible foe they never anticipated. The initial impact of the Spanish flu pandemic at the beginning of the year had been insignificant in Oklahoma. The second wave struck the campus that fall. This virulent H1N1 flu killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide and about 675,000 in the United States between January 1918 and December 1920." - David Peters, STATE Magazine In this episode, David Peters, Head of the OSU Archives, and Olivia Turner, Digital Storytelling Intern, talk about the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the impact it had on OAMC. Read the full story "Facing Down A Pandemic. Spanish Flu hit an unprepared OAMC campus in 1918" on page 86 of STATE Magazine https://issuu.com/brandosu/docs/oklahoma_state_university_state_magazine_fall_2020