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SOURCE: Slate
9/13/2020

When 194,000 Deaths Doesn’t Sound Like So Many

by Rebecca Onion

Historian Jacqueline Wernimont explains that the rise of quantification helps to obscure the human beings behind the numbers and makes the COVID-19 toll seem more acceptable.

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/14/2020

The Dark Side of Campus Efforts to Stop COVID-19

by Grace Watkins

While colleges have a legitimate interest in suppressing virus transmission on campus, it is dangerous to expand the surveillance powers of campus police.

SOURCE: Nursing Clio
9/8/2020

“All the World’s a Harem”: Perceptions of Masked Women during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic

by Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig and E. Thomas Ewing

Contemporary sources show that women's mask-wearing practices during the 1918 flu pandemic could be viewed through a sexist lens, but women adapted the practice to claim independence and found examples in popular culture.

SOURCE: Washington Post
9/1/2020

‘The 1918 Flu Is Still With Us’: The Deadliest Pandemic Ever Is Still Causing Problems Today

Historians John Barry and Howard Markel are among the medical and social science experts who explain that the 1918 pandemic didn't "end" so much as endure in an era of recurrent viral pandemics.

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/3/2020

The Summer Sun Didn’t Stop Covid-19. Here’s Why.

by Janet Golden and Christian Warren

The misguided hope that the summer sun would stop COVID-19 in its tracks is one of a long series of claims made about the health benefits of the sun. They all reflect how magical thinking can leap into the gaps of scientific certainty.

SOURCE: New York Times
9/2/2020

Gerald Ford Rushed Out a Vaccine. It Was a Fiasco

by Rick Perlstein

If steady, mature Gerald Ford succumbed to haste when his presidency was on the line, imagine what Donald Trump will do.

SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
8/30/2020

Florence Nightingale, Data Visualization Visionary

Today's biggest news stories are often told through data visualization. Telling stories through data-based pictures has a surprising source.

8/30/2020

U. S. Individualism Spikes Up Coronavirus Cases

by Walter G. Moss

The COVID-19 pandemic shows that American political culture has embraced individualism at the expense of our ability to imagine and act for the common good.

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/20/2020

No, There Isn’t A Constitutional Right To Not Wear Masks

by Helena Rosenblatt

Libertarian arguments against compulsory mask-wearing to fight COVID-19 claim the mantle of individual liberty but ignore the way that liberal theory has focused on both rights and duties as the core of the social contract.

SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
8/19/2020

Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand

Scholars like Philip Ziegler and Mark Senn have argued that the Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the first large-scale popular revolt in England.

SOURCE: CNN
8/20/2020

UNC Fiasco Reveals Truth About Reopening Colleges

by David M. Perry

University administrations need to be more transparent and accountable for how they are handling reopening under COVID.

SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/18/2020

Architecting a “New Normal”? Past Pandemics and the Medicine of Urban Planning

by Jennifer Hart, Nate Plageman and Tony Yeboah

In our research efforts – and in those of many other urban scholars examining African contexts – we’ve repeatedly seen how medical experts and modernist urban planners exploited outbreaks of disease to legitimize their emerging systems of technical expertise and advance white supremacy, global capitalism, and imperial order.

SOURCE: Spectrum News
8/17/2020

UNC Chapel Hill Cancels In-Person Classes as Coronavirus Cases Climb

"It shouldn't have taken so many infections," said UNC-CH history professor Jay Smith.

8/16/2020

Curtain Up: Two Theater Companies Return to Live Performance, with Concessions to COVID

by Bruce Chadwick

“We want to remind the Berkshires, and the country, that the virus will be defeated and that in the meantime we must reclaim our lives and the arts is the way to do that,” said Nick Paleologos of the Berkshires Theater.

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/13/2020

’Back To School’ Amid a Pandemic and Uprisings Gives Teachers a Unique Opportunity

by Kabria Baumgartner

The history of Black women educators shows a path for teachers to directly engage the social conflicts and inequalities that affect their students lives.

SOURCE: Washington Post
8/11/2020

Boston Refused to Close Schools During the 1918 Flu. Then Children Began to Die

Boston's school health officials in 1918 denied that school attendance posed a heightened risk for children contracting or transmitting the flu.

SOURCE: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
8/11/2020

“The Mask Law will be Rigidly Enforced”: Ordinances, Arrests, and Celebrations during the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic

by Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. Thomas Ewing

History teaches us that masking is a community effort in which individuals choose to act for the good of all, despite the inconvenience or discomfort.

SOURCE: History.com
8/10/2020

5 Hard-Earned Lessons from Past Pandemics

Do any of the survival strategies developed by past societies seem familiar?

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/10/2020

The Problem with Asking Police to Enforce Public Health Measures

by Emily Brooks

World War II-era campaigns against prostitution in New York City show that enacting public health controls through the police department results in racially unequal enforcement and increased policing of communities of color.

SOURCE: National Endowment for the Humanities
8/6/2020

The Last Pandemic

by E. Thomas Ewing

As we look to history for lessons in early 2020, we need to think broadly about how understanding the complexity of the past can inform decisions in the present and the future.