Category Archives: Historicizing Covid-19
The Grim History of Counting the Dead During Plagues
Dear Leader: Lessons on leadership in the time of pandemic
Analyzing the Past in the Present: The Black Death, COVID-19, and the Ursinus Quest
An essay by capstone seminar students at Ursinus College that attempts to answer the question: is it possible that studying the Black Death can teach us something about how to handle our current situation?
Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans
Profiteering in the War against Covid-19
The policy mistakes from the 1990s that have made covid-19 worse
Beyond Statistics: Living through a Pandemic
The Tenement Museum designed an online exhibit to respond to the Covid-19 crisis, titled Beyond Statistics: Living through a Pandemic. The exhibit interprets the stories of five people, all immigrants or migrants, who lived in the museum’s historic buildings and all died of contagious disease. Through their stories, we look at how historians can uncover perspectives on living with and suffering from contagious disease, the context of prejudice, medical science, and government and community response, and ultimately, the importance of historians finding and honoring stories of individuals.