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'A Journal of the Plague Year' relevant 300 years after publication

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'A Journal of the Plague Year' relevant 300 years after publication

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During the pandemic, I took a graduate history course in which we read Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of a Plague Year.' I had read the piece about 5 years before, but I missed so many of its nuances because it all seemed so foreign. It was striking to me both how much and how little has changed from 1665 to 2020/21. Quarantine, death tolls, travel bans, hoarding had all suddenly become commonplace occurrences that I could relate to. The centuries may have changed our technology drastically, but nothing seems to have changed about the human condition nor the human spirit.

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news opinion piece

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Knox News

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06/02/2021

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06/11/2021
06/18/2021
08/06/2021

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05/04/2020

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This item was submitted on June 2, 2021 by Ashley Tibollo using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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