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Katharine McCormick and Margaret Sanger set out to improve women's lives through "birth control," a phrase Sanger coined.
The Pill |
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Scroll through a month and monitor the changing balance of hormones in a woman's reproductive cycle.
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Watch Chapter 1 of Influenza.
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In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about.
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Watch a video interview with Dr. Alfred Crosby, author of Epidemic and Peace 1918: America's Forgotten Pandemic .
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In March 1997, a team of pathologists published a report concerning the discovery of genetic material from the influenza of 1918.
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After the the worldwide 1918 influenza pandemic, there was one key question: Could it happen again?
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Early 20th-century scientists struggled to understand the source of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic and how best to prevent it.
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Read a detailed timeline of the 1918 epidemic that ultimately killed upwards of 600,000 people.
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The surprise pandemic of 1918 shook Americans’ confidence in the medical establishment that had previously found vaccines for other lethal diseases.
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San Francisco was spared during the first wave of influenza in the spring of 1918. But as the second wave took its toll on eastern cities, the city prepared for a possible onslaught.
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In early September, city officials in Boston were caught off guard when three civilians dropped dead of influenza.
