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Category Archive: coronavirus

The Power of the Endless Love for Automobiles

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The pandemic might have pointed the way to a less car-centric future, Murray Browne argues, but the emotional attachment to cars remains.

Murray Browne December 29, 2020 American Studies, boomers, coronavirus, dogs die in hot cars

Sun in an Empty Zoom

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What a Zoom church service tells us about how we got from April to now

Alex Sayf Cummings December 23, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus

What Have We Done to Each Other?

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In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 22, 2020 class, coronavirus, film, gender, prisons, religion

COVID Speakeasy: Hunting for Live Music in the Pacific Palisades

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Rob Baker on the search for live music in a California starved of it.

H. Robert Baker September 30, 2020 California, coronavirus, music

What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time

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Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.

Ethan J. Kytle September 25, 2020 California, coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, healthcare, public history

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XIX

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As some pushed a return to the status quo, Fresno leaders urged citizens to exercise caution and heed the guidance of experts, lest the city reopen too quickly.

Ethan J. Kytle September 5, 2020 coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, public history

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XVIII

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The second wave of the virus seemed to be ebbing in January 1919, but health authorities warned Fresnans not to let their guard down.

Ethan J. Kytle August 17, 2020 coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, healthcare, public history

Teaching During the Pandemic

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Historian Joshua Freeman discusses the strange and poignant experience of teaching his final semester under the pall of COVID.

Joshua B. Freeman August 12, 2020 coronavirus, Education, labor, New York, teaching

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