COVID-19

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/26/2020
  

  How History Informs Our Current Crisis (Audio)

  Historian Julian Zelizer contextualizes the mask debate, the U.S. death toll, social distancing, and the U.S.'s international standing.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  5/28/2020
  

  Should the U.S. Favor Public Health or the Economy? History Shows they’re Inseparable

  by Robert I. Field

  Historical evidence suggests that public health infrastructure, which is lacking for COVID, is key to stable and secure recovery from a pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  America’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic is ‘Incomprehensibly Incoherent,’ Says Historian Who Studied the 1918 Flu

  According to historian John M. Barry, Americans have not learned their lesson since 1918.

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• SOURCE: The MIT Press Reader
  5/26/2020
  

  Lessons From Operation 'Denver,' the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign

  Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on a conspiracy theory that reverberates to this day.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2020
  

  Reopening too Soon: Lessons from the Deadly Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  J. Alexander Navarro of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has compiled archival records of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in 43 U.S. cities. The findings suggest staying closed helps prevent a deadly second wave of infections.  

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• SOURCE: American Prospect
  5/21/2020
  

  Everybody Hates the SBA

  How did one of the most addled government agencies end up as our last line of pandemic defense? The answer lies in the agency's history of capture by large business interests.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  5/26/2020
  

  COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Food System. Hunger Was Already Here.

  by Carla Cevasco

  The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the hunger underneath the rhetoric of American plenty.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/26/2020
  

  The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War

  by Danny Sjursen

  With U.S. troops still fighting in Somalia, former West Point history instructor Danny Sjursen takes a deep dive into the future of American war in a Covid-19 world.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/26/2020
  

  We’re Reopening Notre Dame. It’s Worth the Risk.

  by John I. Jenkins

  The President of the University of Notre Dame argues that the university's mission is a higher good that requires informed and cautious embrace of risk. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  They Survived the Worst Battles of World War II. And Died of the Virus.

  The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5/25/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is Threatening Diversity In Academia

  As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2020
  

  This Memorial Day, Will We Find Meaning In Our Suffering?

  Historian Drew Gilpin Faust offers her insight on mourning and redemption.

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• SOURCE: Axios
  5/25/2020
  

  Ken Burns: Coronavirus Pandemic Is Crisis "On The Level" Of Civil War And Great Depression (Podcast)

  On this podcast, the filmmaker and historian Geoffrey Ward discuss American leadership during moments of crisis.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/24/2020
  

  The Memo: Trump Agenda Rolls On Amid Pandemic

  Historian Julian Zelizer predicts Trump will continue to play to his base as the campaign heats up; the risk is that he'll fail to connect beyond that base.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Beginning to Decide

  Historians including David Kennedy, Martha S. Jones, and Brenda Stevenson, along with curators at national and local museums, discuss the assembly of artifacts to document the COVID crisis for posterity. 

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Pandemic, Pandering and Prejudice: Trump's Effort to Weaponize Xenophobia

  by James D. Zirin

  Blaming China and threatening reprisals is not going to save any lives. It won’t open up the country any sooner. It won’t create a single job. But it might just get Trump re-elected--at least he thinks so.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/19/2020
  

  College Calendars in the Pandemic: No Fall Break and Home by Thanksgiving

  As universities announce plans to bring back students, a pattern is emerging: shorter semesters to avoid late-fall infections.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/19/2020
  

  When University Leaders Fail

  by François Furstenberg

  A university governed by long timelines and long-term thinking grows conservatively and cautiously and prepares itself prudently for potential crises. If you turn a university into a giant corporation, on the other hand, it will rise and fall with the business cycle.

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• SOURCE: Vice
  5/17/2020
  

  ASU Historians Founded "Journal of the Plague Year" to Document the Pandemic in Real Time

  Historians Katherine Landdeck and Mark Tebeau weigh in on the importance of chronicling all types of experiences, no matter how mundane they may seem.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo Finance
  5/17/2020
  

  Coronavirus Will Not Harm Urbanization, Cities 'Will Come Back Even Stronger'

  "What we find is that in history of crises, in history of pandemics, the young people, ambitious people, people from rural areas who want better jobs flock to cities," says urbanist Richard Florida.