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How White Backlash Controls American Progress

Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via The Atlantic on May 21, 2020

One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”

by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 20, 2020

A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Epidemic

In Philadelphia, authorities faced a familiar challenge: to protect public health while maintaining individuals' rights to act, speak, and assemble freely.

by E. Thomas Ewing via Nursing Clio on May 19, 2020

A woman updates a museum display of newspaper front pages.

The Answer to the Media Industry’s Woes? Publicly Owned Newspapers.

Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them.

by Victor Pickard via Made By History on May 18, 2020

COVID-19 in History

Living through a momentus time has prompted many reflections on what the past has to teach us about why the pandemic took the shape that it did – and how we can better respond to it.

Patients and Patience: The Long Career of Yellow Fever

Extending the narrative of Philadelphia's epidemic past 1793 yields lessons that are more complex and less comforting than the story that's often told.

by Simon Finger via The Panorama on May 18, 2020

Hands exchanging money.

Will Covid-19 End the Use of Paper Money?

Our cash could spread disease — and there is precedent for changing it because of the pandemic.

by Joshua R. Greenberg via Made By History on May 15, 2020

I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

COVID-19 isn’t an automatic death sentence, but the fear, vilification and isolation are the same.

by Richard Rivera via The Marshall Project on May 14, 2020

Americans Coped With ‘Wheatless Wednesdays’ in WWI

When the government urged Americans to cut back on wheat consumption, bakers came up with creative solutions.

by Emelyn Rude via TIME on May 13, 2020

Woman working on a computer and holding a baby in her lap.

Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

by Sarah Keyes via Made By History on May 12, 2020

Come On and Zoom-Zoom

The original “Zoom” burst joyfully out of Boston in the 1970s, and is still beloved by older members of Generation X.

by David Kamp via The New Yorker on May 11, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

Portrait-style painting of woman in brown dress, with a modern COVID-19 protective mask digitally imposed on her face

Early American Women Unmasked

The masks owned by early American women and even children were no less symbolic than modern masks in terms of practical use, commodification, or controversy.

by Philippe Halbert via The Junto on May 5, 2020

Prison security guard wearing a mask.

The Policy Mistakes From the 1990s That Have Made Covid-19 Worse

Being tough on crime and cutting benefits from the poor left millions more susceptible to disease.

by Heather Ann Thompson via Made By History on May 4, 2020

Trump, WHO, and Half a Century of Global Health Austerity

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights that inspired the WHO.

by Michael Brenes, Michael Franczak via Boston Review on May 4, 2020

Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

by Francis Wilkinson via Bloomberg on May 3, 2020

The Oakland Municipal Auditorium set up as a hospital, with Red Cross nurses tending to flu patients, 1918.

The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

A new book suggests that the plague’s horrors haunt modernist literature between the lines.

by Rebecca Onion, Elizabeth Outka via Slate on May 3, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.

by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.

by Mark Ashwill via CounterPunch on April 30, 2020

The Sting of ‘Thank You for Your Service’

The benefits that come with serving the country have withered in recent decades.

by John Worsencroft via Made By History on April 29, 2020

A woman videochats on her phone

During Epidemics, Media (And Now Social Media) Have Always Helped People to Connect

In a devastating 1793 epidemic people transformed their newspaper into something like today’s social media.

by David Paul Nord via Made By History on April 27, 2020

Typhoid Mary Was a Maligned Immigrant Who Got a Bum Rap

Now, she's become hashtag shorthand for people who defy social distancing orders.

by Katherine A. Foss via The Conversation on April 24, 2020

Nurses tend to patients in a field hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic.

Medicare for All in the Age of Coronavirus

A history of U.S. health care debates.

by Nancy Tomes via Perspectives on History on April 24, 2020

Public Health Isn’t The Enemy of Economic Well-Being

As 19th century reformers showed, only a healthy workforce can fuel economic prosperity.

by Melanie A. Kiechle via Made By History on April 24, 2020

Donald Trump seen through a window reflecting a fence.

President Trump’s Immigration Suspension Has Nothing to Do With Coronavirus

Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.

by Carly Goodman via Made By History on April 22, 2020

Smithfield factory distribution center.

As Our Meat, Pork and Poultry Supply Dwindles, We Should Remember Why

While worrying about our food supply, we must also worry about workers producing it.

by Anya Jabour via Made By History on April 21, 2020

Death Can’t Take the Stories Our Elders Pass On

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

by Nelson George via Medium on April 21, 2020

Nurses on strike.

We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.

COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.

by Lane Windham via HNN on April 19, 2020

If You Think Quarantine Life Is Weird Today, Try Living It in 1918

From atomizer crazes to stranded actor troupes to school by phone, daily life during the flu pandemic was a trip.

by Michael Waters via Slate on April 17, 2020

A mug shot of Linda Taylor

COVID-19 and Welfare Queens

Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via Boston Review on April 17, 2020

Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century New York

As COVID-19 races through New York, we asked Lorna Ebner to tell us about previous attempts to mitigate disease in the city.

by Lorna Ebner via Books, Health and History on April 14, 2020

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