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Behind the Lines

Two depictions of the Great War

Rocket Men

It’s going to be a long, long time

When Suppertime Came

We still don’t know why the Fitzgerald went down

Peter L. Twohig

Peter L. Twohig is the incoming co-editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the Hist­ory of the Atlantic Region. He lives in Halifax.

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Peter L. Twohig

Localized Pain

Ghosts of a pandemic past May 2021
When the historian Alfred Crosby’s seminal 1976 book, Epidemic and Peace, 1918, was republished in 1989, it was given a catchier title: America’s Forgotten Pandemic. While the current pandemic has brought renewed interest in the “Great Influenza,” it was never really forgotten. After all, it circled the globe in successive…