Clio and the Contemporary
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Small Acts of Storytelling: Why We Need More History
College students are taking fewer history classes than ever before. The consequences have implications not just for our collective knowledge about the past, but also for our ability to make sense of the present.
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Of Plagues and Papers: COVID-19, the Media, and the Construction of American Disease History
In their attempts to make sense of the novel coronavirus, media outlets frequently invoke the past, comparing COVID-19 to the Black Death, the “Great Influenza” of 1918-19, and other historical disease outbreaks. The act of connecting “then” and “now” has produced two countervailing historical narratives: one that emphasizes medical progress over time, and another that highlights America’s failure to learn the lessons of past pandemics.
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