COVID-19

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  7/8/2020
  

  ‘If I tell people about what happened, I honor my ancestors.’ How the Pandemic is Helping a Slavery Historian Develop a K-12 Lesson Plan on African-American History

  Non-academic historians step in to preserve stories that would otherwise be lost.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/8/2020
  

  Americans Are The Dangerous, Disease-Carrying Foreigners Now

  by Erika Lee

  For centuries, we have been the ones demonizing foreigners as carriers of infectious disease. And we have been the ones banning immigrants in the name of protecting Americans’ public health.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/7/2020
  

  “A Keen Vision and Feeling of All Ordinary Life”: Pandemic Journaling in the History Classroom

  by Michelle Orihel

  Since memory is essential to functioning in our daily lives, we all think historically to survive, even if only to question ourselves: “Did I pay that bill yesterday?” In answering that question, we reconstruct yesterday’s actions in our minds and perhaps even search for physical (or in today’s case, digital) evidence of that task. There it is — historical thinking!

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/7/2020
  

  The Cruelty of ICE’s Guidance for International Students

  by Brian Rosenberg

  There is no soft-pedaling this: It is among the most mean-spirited policies we have seen from an administration that embraces meanness every day.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  7/4/2020
  

  Why 2020 Feels Like the Longest Year Of Our Lives — And Yet It’s Only Half Over.

  “One day it feels like 1861, the next 1918, then suddenly 1970,” said professor Ted Widmer.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  Americans Gave Up a Lot to Stop the Pandemic. Our Leaders Wasted that Sacrifice.

  by David Perry

  Nearly everything our most prominent leaders did was wrong, even as a not-so-silent majority of Americans keeps trying to do the right things.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Humanity is an Endangered Species. Can We Do What it Takes to Save Ourselves?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The dire crises facing humanity--climate change, pandemic disease, widespread pollution, and nuclear weapons, to name a few--demand that we reject a fatalistic sense of impotence and the legacies of nationalism that prevent cooperative solutions. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  7/5/2020
  

  Kansas Newspaper Equates Mask Mandate With Holocaust, Drawing Fire

  Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, said most if not all comparisons of current political events to the Holocaust are “odious” and said it’s “incoherent” to equate an action designed to save lives with mass murder. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/6/2020
  

  Productivity Moves With Our Bodies

  by Ángela Vergara

  Researching the professional and familial lives of women scientists brought the author face to face with the impact of domestic and family obligations on women's academic work during COVID-19. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  I’m a College Professor. Here is What I Think about College Preparations for the Coronavirus this Fall.

  by Daniel W. Drezner

  Without a viable vaccine in the next six months, higher education in the United States will face a severe reckoning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/1/2020
  

  As Young People Drive Infection Spikes, College Faculty Members Fight For The Right To Teach Remotely

  Many schools are giving students the option to take classes remotely while expecting faculty to teach classes in person.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  6/24/2020
  

  Makers of Living, Breathing History: The Material Culture of Homemade Facemasks

  by Erika L. Briesacher

  Material culture centers objects as historical documents that can be read like a text; whether highlighting the physical piece or searching for the biography behind it, this approach reveals complex sociocultural behavior.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/30/2020
  

  The Surprisingly Deep—and Often Troubling—History of ‘Social Distancing’

  Doctoral student Lily Scherlis traced the evolution of the term in a “social history of social distancing,” from the earliest reference she could find in English—in the 1831 translation of Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne’s memoirs of his friendship with Napoleon—to the Social Distance Scale that sociologist Emory Bogardus created in the aftermath of the Red Summer of 1919.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/29/2020
  

  The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home

  As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  With Schools and Daycare Closed, the Coronavirus is Worsening Women’s Inequality

  by Lisa Levenstein

  The paucity of policy support for childbirth and care work are the result of a system that still envisions the ideal worker as a man.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  6/22/2020
  

  Past Pandemics have Reshaped Society. Will Coronavirus do the Same?

  Jeffrey Brown speaks to two historians, Frank Snowden of Yale University and Nancy Bristow of the University of Puget Sound, about how previous pandemics have shaped societies.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  6/23/2020
  

  Cancel the Fall College Football Season

  by Victoria L. Jackson

  For too long, instead of facilitating the intellectual advancement and economic empowerment of young Black men, college sports have helped make American universities another institution perpetuating the undervaluing of Black lives.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  6/23/2020
  

  AHA Receives Major NEH Grant to Fund COVID-19 Initiative

  The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  6/14/2020
  

  As NYC Awakens, Navigating A Strange New Normal

  “This is not the first time New York has been challenged. It won’t be the last,” says historian Kenneth T. Jackson.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  6/9/2020
  

  How Oral History Projects Are Being Stymied by COVID-19

  As the current pandemic ravages minority communities, historians are scrambling to continue work that preserves cultural heritage.