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2021-12-11Olivia Valenti Oral History, 2021/12/11
It illustrates what college was like during the pandemic -
2021-12-08Tiffany Lam and Daniel Barry Oral History, 2021/12/08
It connects the COVID pandemic to past pandemics, and the future. -
2021-12-07T13Covid-19 Archive Project Second Interview
After learning about four major pandemics, we discussed how our views of the COVID-19 pandemic have changed over the course of the semester, and how our perceptions of pandemics as a whole have changed. -
2021-12-07Marc Carolla and Niccola Lutri Oral History, 2021/12/07
Marc & Niccola discuss their experiences with COVID-19 and relate it to past pandemics that they learned about in class -
2021-12-06Amberley L. and Elsa Hanson Oral History, 2021/12/06
Elsa Hanson and Amberley L. interview each other about how they think COVID-19 compares to past pandemics. They also discuss how the public has dealt with the pandemic if there will be long term effects of the pandemic, and what precautions they have been taking. -
2021-12-06Kate Roche and Ariel Emrani Oral History, 2021/12/06
It explains how past pandemics have affected how we view COVID-19. -
2021-12-06Suhani Rathi and Lilly Daugherty Oral History, 2021/12/06
Northeastern University students, Suhani Rathi and Lilly Daughterty interview each other in this school assignment. In this interview they take turns comparing the COVID 19 pandemic to past pandemics. They discuss the similarities. -
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. -
12/07/2020Lauren Murray Oral History, 2020/12/07
Interview with a college student studying historical diseases about how COVID-19 compares to past pandemics. Comparison to 1918 Influenza pandemic and Black Death. -
2020-08-06Medieval ‘wine windows’ are reopening, reviving Italian plague tradition
When the bubonic plague or black death went through Europe small windows, just big enough for a glass of wine to be passed through, were used. People in Italy today are using them again in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic. -
2020-06-12A Ballad: COVID-19
It is a ballad about the virus itself. -
2020-03Michaels
A meme comparing the coronavirus pandemic to the black death in the middle ages, showing a person wearing a plague doctors outfit to go to the store Michaels -
2020-03-11What we can learn from past pandemics
The article provides a good overview of the history of pandemics, from the 6th through 20th centuries. -
2020-03-17Historical Pandemics
An overview of history's greatest pandemics and how they ended.