Past and Future
Vietnamese America, pandemic, work, politics and a guilty verdict in the George Floyd case
Paris in the 21st century, as imagined by artist Jean-Marc Côté in 1899. Image credit: Public Domain Review
Racial Reckoning
Phuong-Cac Nguyen, “Vietnamese in America: A cross generational conversation about culture and identity.” (April 21, 2021)
History Reconsidered
Aro Velmet, “Promise and Peril, Mass Vaccination in Colonial Africa: How a yellow fever vaccine in French West Africa may have killed thousands.” (April 21, 2021)
Annals of the Pandemic
Roxana Toma, “Resilience in a Time of Plague: A Personal Account: During a crisis, the people who cope best are those who help others.” (April 21, 2021)
Daniel Royles, “Teaching Through the Pandemic: In a course about memorializing HIV-AIDS, students learned about community by making one.” (April 21, 2021)
The Working Life
Jared Spears, “The Hidden Costs of Unnecessary Work: By reevaluating the role of work, we can remake our economy and our lives.” (April 18, 2021)
Books
Colin Jerolmack, “Up To Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, freedom, and community in an American town.” (April 20, 2021)
Columnists
Pat Garafolo, “Congress’s Incentive Cease-Fire: How a COVID relief bill could temporarily slow the tax break race to the bottom.” (April 21, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Gun Violence Is as American as Apple Pie: But gun ownership only became popular after World War II, when conservatives united to prevent desegregation.” (April 21, 2021)
Claire Potter, “Guilty. Guilty. Guilty:At last, a policeman is held accountable for murdering a Black American. But the process of imagining an end to lethal policing has only begun.” (April 21, 2021)