The US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) at the University of Houston (UH) announces the release of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic digital archival collection. This collection includes articles from US Hispanic newspapers that highlight issues surrounding the flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the newspapers in the collection include El Mañana (McAllen, Texas), El Imparcial de Texas (Roma, Texas), and La Prensa (San Antonio, Texas).
The collection covers themes such as public health, home remedies, faux pharmaceuticals, politics, racism and discrimination.
Various students and interns contributed to this collection by researching, digitizing, and creating metadata: Maribel Bello, UH Recovery Research Fellow; Melissa Carrizales, SER Bank of America Summer Youth Internship Program intern; Julia Goodley, Whitman College intern; Yanina Hernández, UH Recovery Research Fellow; and Carolina López-Herrera, UH Research for Aspiring Coogs in the Humanities (REACH) Program intern.
The 1918 Influenza Epidemic collection is applicable to courses and research in public health, medical humanities, US history, cultural studies, and US Latino studies to name a few.
This digital collection is supported by US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH)/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program. The USLDH Center is a first-of-its-kind center that gives scholars expanded access to a vast collection of written materials produced by Latinas and Latinos and archived by the Recovery program and UH’s Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States. USLDH also produces digital scholarship in the form of visualizations, datasets, digital collections and exhibits. The Center is supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Explore the exhibit here: https://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/exhibits/show/influenza
Browse the archival items here: https://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/items/browse?collection=23
