Tuesday, May 05, 2020

What historians will see


There was a particularly good feature in the New York Times on how universities and institutions are encouraging people to document life during this pandemic. A few highlights...
StoryCorps, the story-sharing nonprofit, moved its platform online for the first time... 
Students at Neumann University in Pennsylvania set up a series called the Coronavirus Diaries on the school’s radio station, WNUW-FM... 
“A century ago, people told their stories in written journals,... Now, we are capturing people’s thoughts and experiences through social media posts, email, audio and photographs.”... [continue reading in the New York Times].
What Historians Will See When They Look Back on the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020 - New York Times

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