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2021-06-02
'A Journal of the Plague Year' relevant 300 years after publication
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. -
2020-10-20
Responding to the COVID-19 crisis as a foreign exchange student: Ximena Barbagelatta
This is an oral history with Ximena Barbagelatta conducted by Victoria Villaseñor. Ximena Barbagelatta is a foreign exchange student from Lima, Peru studying at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. -
2020-03-16
Europe Covid Shutdown
This article is from March 16, very early on in the pandemic. Its around the time all of the shutdowns started to occur. Its really Important to look at this because its a important part of the timeline of covid-19. I had a vacation planed the month after next to Paris. I live in the United States and had no chance of be able to go there during June.