The Story of
1918 Pandemic in Dayton
Created by history majors
at the University of Dayton
The History of a Global Problem in one City
Response of City Officials
Taking decisive Action.
Nursing & Civic Response
Coordinated public action.
Cultural and Social Impact
legacy and inequalities.
Data on the City’s Dead
mapping the results of the desease.
Doing History
Primary Document Galleries
The following collections of primary materials about the pandemic in Dayton can be examined and used as sources for better understanding the events or writing your own account.
The Creators
The history that appear on this website were written by students at the University of Dayton.
In the middle of the Corona Virus Pandemic of 2020-2021, three seniors in the Department of History at the University of Dayton undertook to write about similar events that had taken place a hundred years before.
What have we learned?
Were there similarities between then and now?
What didn't we learn from 1918 lesson?
How did the pandemic in 1918 impact society?
The experience of writing a history of a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic.
Visit the Dayton History Project Website
Visit the homepage for the University of Dayton Department of History
