Im carl lives. Throughout history, mankind has waged many battles in order to protect his family or nation against misfortune, disaster, or even possible extinction. While sometimes these wars have it was therophic, catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. Unlike the battles of nation against nation, or humanity against the forces of nature where man has often have the opportunity to appear himself, the battle against disease throughout the centuries have found men in the unfortunate position of having to combat had enemy only after it been infiltrated his community and infected much of the population. Have become aware of a pandemic, or worldwide epidemic which originated in the far east and is now known as asian influenza. Because of the alertness and efficiency of the United States Public Health service and the world health organization, a detection system similar to that havee aircraft spotting been established throug
You are in for more surprises this afternoon. S, ifirst speaker is ed ayre feel like he needs no introduction to the richmond community, but i will introduce him. He has received the National Humanities level from president obama at the white house and served as president of the organization of american historians and won the bancroft prize for distinguished writing in American History. He has served as the founding chair of the board of the American Civil War museum. Of americasfuture past, a Television Series that visits sites of memory and meets the people who keep those memories alive. He is the executive director of the new American History, and of course we all know him from a when we are driving around in our cars, as one of the American History guys. An online project design has promoted the student in all of seeo dive into history and it in new and unexpected ways. He is a University Professor and president emeritus at the university of richmond. Es. Ase welcome ed ayr [applau
Guest my pleasure. Good morning. Host what are the lessons from the 1918 pandemic . Terrible, terrible time, which perhaps there seems to be more overlap now than we could have ever imagined, i think that there are some differences and there are some important similarities as well. I think we should really focus on the differences between whats going on now and 1918. Because 1918 did leave us with several lessons. Perhaps the most important one is understanding what it was that was killing people in 1918. Just to remind everybody, back in 1918, people had not yet discovered viruses. That would happen over the next couple of decades. And so there was this terrible disease that ended up killing between 50 million and 100 Million People worldwide, or 675,000 people in the u. S. , which in todays numbers, would be about three million deaths. And they did not know what it was that was killing them. The word influenza comes from a latin word, meaning influence. People thought that it was the
Extinction. While sometimes these wars have been, well, theyve been catastrophic. There was the catastrophe of 1918, when an influenza epidemic swept through our own nation as well as the entire world. Unlike the battles of nation against nation, or humanity against the forces of nature when man has often had the opportunity to prepare himself, the battles against disease throughout the centuries have found men in the unfortunate position of having to combat this enemy only after it had infiltrated his community and infected much of the population. Recently, you have become aware of a pandemic, or a worldwide epidemic which originated in the far east and is now known as asian influenza. Because of the alertness and efficiency of the United States Public Health service, and the world health organization, a detection system similar to that of the aircraft spotting have been established throughout the world and has enabled us to recognize and follow the progress of asian influenza as it c
Anna san antonio is here because of these missions. What is really kind of wonderful is that a lot of people who this their call parish home and come here can trace their ancestry to the colonial period, the people who build these mission buildings and built these churches. The missions are about the start of the city of san antonio. We are at the entrance. This is a part of San Antonio Missions National Historic park. This is a unit of the National Park service. There are more than 400 National Park sites around the country. Each of these 419 help to tell 419 plus units help to tell some part of the american story, the part of the american story that we tell here at the San Antonio Mission is the Spanish Colonial history of this area of this part of the world. Mission san jose is one of four missions that make up the National Park. The National Park is comprised of the four missions. We have got a model of this mission, mission san jose. This is a model that shows the exterior wall, t