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                          Editor's Note-Arlene W. Keeling  Special Section: Past as Prologue-The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19  Introduction  Michelle C. Hehman  The Boston Instructive District Nurses Association and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: "Intelligent Cooperation."  Arlene W. Keeling   The Alaskan Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.  Maria Gilson DeValpine and Arlene W. Keeling   "We are capable of handling the current crisis, even if it is just shift by shift": Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic  Beth Hundt  Face Mask Follies: How a Simple Protective Covering Symbolized the State of Nursing and American Society in 1918-19 and 2020.  Marian Moser-Jones  Articles  Imperial Sisters: Patriotism and Humanitarianism in the Letters of British, Australian and New Zealand Profession Nurses, 1914-1918  Christine E. Hallett and Pamela Wood  Home Nursing, Gender and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War (1861-1865)  Kristen Brill  Hidden in Plain Sight  Red, White, and Black: The Debate Over the Active Service of Black Nurses in the United States during the First World War  Ella St. George Carey  An Analysis of Nigerian Igbo Petitions to U.S. Missionary Nurses, 1965.  Martha Highfield  Book Reviews  Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force, by Jean C. Whelan  Reviewer: Susan A. LaRocco  Beyond Nightingale by Carol Helmstadter   Reviewer: Erin Spinney  Public Health Nursing of Jim Crow Florida, by Christine Ardalan  Reviewer: Sandra B. Lewenson  Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920-1950, by Clifford E. Trafzer  Reviewer: Arlene W. Keeling  The Untold Story of Annie McKay and the Boston Public School Nurses 1905-1988: The Formation of the Massachusetts School Nurse Organization, by Dorothy M. Keeney  Reviewer: Mary E. Gibson  Media Reviews  Medical Services and Warfare 1850-1949 Adam Matthew  Reviewer: Erin Spinney  The Chicago Maternity Center Story and The Fight for Life  Reviewer: Eileen Thrower  Nursing History Digitization Project: Nursing Education in Nova Scotia   Reviewer: Lydia Wytenbroek  Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health and Pandemic Histories  Reviewer: Lucy Vorobej  Guidelines for Contributors
                          
                            
                          
                        
                          Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN,  is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and associate director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.
                          
                            
                          
