COVID-19

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  

  Teaching: More Pandemic-Driven Innovations Professors Like

  "The themes running through all of these innovations are flexibility and engagement: The more ways in which people can participate in the classroom, contribute to discussions, and share their ideas, readers found, the more learning improves."

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• SOURCE: WEMU
  4/12/2021
  

  U-M Medical Historian Says It Appears History Is Repeating Itself In Our Current Pandemic

  Medical Historian Alex Navarro warns that resistance to vaccines and public health measures are likely to prolong the COVID pandemic the way they did the 1919 influenza. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/12/2021
  

  How US History Explains Vaccine Passport Skepticism

  Opposition to requiring documentary proof of vaccination to participate in some activities is rooted both in the weak traditions of public health in the United States and legitimate fears that such "passports" will work to disadvantage the poor, minorities, and others who are less able to access vaccination. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/10/2021
  

  A Once-in-a-Century Crisis Can Help Educate Doctors

  by Molly Worthen

  The COVID-19 pandemic has offered valuable lessons on the necessity of humanistic education in the training of medical professionals. 

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• SOURCE: Salem News
  3/24/2021
  

  SSU Faculty Retrenchment Plan Accidentally Released

  Salem (MA) State University's General Counsel disputed that a spreadsheet accidentally relased in response to a records request and circulated by a faculty member constitutes a plan to terminate faculty positions for budgetary reasons. Faculty argue that it is consistent with pressure they face to accept furloughs and doubt administration assurances that retrenchment is off the table.

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• SOURCE: ABC 10
  3/21/2021
  

  Historian Brooke Newman on the Front Lines of COVID Vaccination

  Historian Brooke Newman, after careful research, is allowing her daughter to participate in the a trial of a vaccine, already tested for teens, on younger children. They cite the personal desire to return to normalcy, the documented safety of the vaccine in earlier trials, and advancing the collective cause of public health in their decision.

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  3/20/2021
  

  We Need Social Science, Not Just Medical Science, to Beat the Pandemic

  by Nicholas Dirks

  "In order to ensure that scientific advances work not just to create new medicines but to help lead to a healthier and more just world, we need to ensure that science and social science work hand in hand as well."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/15/2021
  

  The Race to Collect COVID Ephemera Before It’s History

  "Last year, on March 13th, as Americans began to restructure daily life in response to covid-19, one curator, Rebecca Klassen, had an idea."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/22/2021
  

  Medical Racism has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries

  by Dierdre Cooper Owens

  Medical racism is as old as America, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception in terms of unequal vulnerability to disease. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/18/2021
  

  The Sports Pages of Death

  by Tom Engelhardt

  The developing effort to control and contain the COVID pandemic raise the question of why governments and industry are not doing more to avoid the worst case scenarios of climate change. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/2021
  

  Aruká Juma, Last Man of His Tribe, Is Dead

  As the last fluent speaker of the tribe’s language, Mr. Juma’s death means that much of the tribe’s language and many of its traditions and rituals will be forever lost.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/9/2021
  

  Thucydides, Historical Solidarity, and Birth in the Pandemic

  by Sarah Christine Teets

  A classicist reflects on Thucydides' account of the Athenian plague, and concludes that the point of historical knowledge is to empathize, not to strategize. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2021
  

  The Coronavirus Killed the Gospel of Small Government

  by Zachary D. Carter

  Revisiting the work of Keynes highlights the fact that struggles to deal with the pandemic are not only public health failures but economic failures — an inability to marshal resources to solve a problem. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2021
  

  Transcript: Race in America: History Matters with Erika Lee & Helen Zia

  Historian Erika Lee and Asian-American civil rights activist Helen Zia discuss the way that COVID-19 has reignited hostility against Asian Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/1/2021
  

  The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence

  The COVID pandemic has led to increased hostility and violence targeting Asian Americans. Younger activists, who want to define these attacks as crimes of bias, struggle to convince the wider society that these individual incidents are part of a historical pattern of racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/24/2021
  

  Many Black Americans Aren’t Rushing to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine – A Long History of Medical Abuse Suggests Why

  by Esther Jones

  From J. Marion Sims to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments to the exploitation of Henrietta Lacks' DNA, there are ample historical reasons for Black Americans to feel that medical authorities are unconcerned with their safety and mistrust new COVID vaccines. Acknowledging this history is essential for public health authorities to gain trust. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/22/2021
  

  We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy

  by Sarah Zhang

  “We’ve gotten so good at preventing so many diseases, there’s been a loss of knowledge and a loss of experience,” Jeanne Kisacky, the author of Rise of the Modern Hospital, says.

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  2/19/2021
  

  The Current Republic of Suffering

  by Murray Browne

  Drew Gilpin Faust's "This Republic of Suffering" inspires reflection on how the collective experiences of COVID and the loss of a half million Americans may shape the society that emerges. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2021
  

  Having Vaccines Alone isn’t Enough to Defeat COVID-19

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Early efforts at smallpox innoculation showed the importance of social and political factors in making new medical technologies effective. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/21/2021
  

  What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

  by Anne Anlin Cheng

  Trump could not have rallied the kind of hatred that he did without this country’s long history of systemic and cultural racism against people of Asian descent.