Water Works

In the winter of 1918, the city of Milwaukee faced a crisis almost exactly like our own. A highly contagious and deadly ... Read more

In the years after its effective response to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, Milwaukee became known as “the healthiest ... Read more

In episode two of The Healthiest City podcast, hosts Bailey Green and Roman Lulloff explore how the rise of the Socialis... Read more

As the 1918 influenza pandemic tore its way across the globe, the damage it caused went hand-in-hand with the ongoing co... Read more

When a disease folks then called the "Spanish Flu" was first detected in Milwaukee, the city's public health officials f... Read more

While pandemics can seem to disrupt every facet of our daily lives, they are, at their core, medical crises. This week o... Read more

Milwaukee's success at handling the influenza pandemic did not mean the going was easy. For the city's bars and restaura... Read more

By the end of the epidemic, the United States had lost 0.6% of the population to the Spanish Flu, with around 675,000 de... Read more

A preview of the new season of a podcast from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milw... Read more

The first peoples who called the land we call Milwaukee home recognized the centrality of water to the region. Beyond re... Read more