Forbes began publishing its annual Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans in 1982, but the magazine started tracking the subject all the way back in 1918. The first-ever Forbes rich list, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this November 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, a girl stands next to her sister lying in bed. The ...

While the global pandemic lasted for two years, a significant number of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the ...

Look back at the chronicle of global pandemics, and the flu pandemic of 1918 stands out as an anomaly for one reason: According to the history books, it struck healthy adults in their prime just as ...

Humanity's greatest predator: A laboratory recreation of the H1N1 virus that killed untold millions in 1918. Credit: BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty The coronavirus is nothing next to the ...

This isn’t the first time leaders have struggled with deciding whether to keep schools open in a pandemic. During the influenza pandemic in 1918, even though the world was a very different place, the ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

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A few years ago I came across a family photograph of the burial ceremony of my second great-grandmother, Rachel (Broadhead) Taylor and her daughter, Flora Taylor. Both had died within three days of ...

The global flu outbreak of 1918 killed 50 million people worldwide, ranking as one of the deadliest epidemics in history. For decades, scientists have debated where in the world the pandemic started, ...