With thousands of people dying every day, it can be difficult to understand the scale of the COVID-19 tragedy. In the graph below, I try to offer some sense of the scale by comparing the pandemic to several of the major wars fought by U.S. forces over the past two-and-a-half centuries. What we see is devastation on par with the bloodiest wars in U.S. history.
Read MoreIn March 2020, the COVID-19 Oral History Project, based at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), teamed up with A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY), based at Arizona State University to create and curate a series of oral histories focused on the lived experience of the pandemic. Among the results of this collaboration has been a focus on research-based pedagogy and learning for undergraduate students, graduate students, and the public at large. This pedagogical emphasis has both shaped the archive and has been shaped by the process of developing the archive.
Read MoreThis essay, “The COVID-19 Oral History Project: Some Preliminary Notes from the Field” reflects on C19OH as a rapid response oral history project – how the research team conceived and implemented it, both in the field and in the classroom, and how they continue to transform it in response to practical concerns and ethical frameworks.
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