{"id":31,"date":"2025-10-30T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:18:42","slug":"cultural-impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/cultural-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1918 Flu in Virginia contributes to cultural justice by uncovering how the pandemic unequally affected different communities across the state. Highlighting disparities in access to healthcare, living conditions, and public health responses. Through digitized records and newspaper analysis, it shows who received care, how deaths were reported, and stories were preserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized wp-duotone-midnight-filter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-29-at-10.04.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" style=\"width:459px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-29-at-10.04.53-PM.png 1140w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-29-at-10.04.53-PM-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Minimizing the scale of war emphasizing the pain of influenzai l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key analysis is the project&#8217;s efforts to recover those marginalized voices that were overlooked. They included materials from African American communities and smaller rural areas, the project challenges dominant narratives that center only on urban or institutional perspectives. Virginia Tech scholars&#8217; inclusive approach reflects DH\u2019s broader commitment to equity and accessibility, using digital tools to give historical memories a just voice.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1918 Flu in Virginia contributes to cultural justice by uncovering how the pandemic unequally affected different communities across the state. Highlighting disparities in access to healthcare, living conditions, and public health responses. Through digitized records and newspaper analysis, it shows who received care, how deaths were reported, and stories were preserved.\u00a0 A key analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/RBFlu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}