Zoom Meeting – 1918 Flu Epidemic

1918 Flu Epidemic
by Tim Nutt, Director of Historic Research, UAMS Library

The “Spanish flu” started circulating around the world and became one of history’s most deadliest pandemics, killing up to 5% of the world’s population. Arkansas was affected by the pandemic, even though local officials scrambled and enacted regulations and quarantines to prevent the disease from spreading.

Tim Nutt is currently employed as the Director of the Historical Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Previously, he was employed as the Head of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and as founding Deputy Curator of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System. He also served as the founding Managing Editor and Staff Historian of the award-winning online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. A native of Bigelow, Arkansas, Nutt received a B.A. in History from the University of Central Arkansas and a masters in Library Science, with an emphasis on archives, from the University of Oklahoma. He is a past president of the Arkansas Historical Association and a Certified Archivist.

Links to video and files:
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– Pre-Meeting (Zoom Video, 27:35)
– Business Meeting (Zoom Video, 9:29)
– “1018 Flu Epidemic” by Tim Nutt (Zoom Video 52:10)
– Questions and Answers (Zoom Video 26:04)
– Post-Meeting (Zoom Video, 30:58)
– Zoom Chat Text (Text File)