We just did an online presentation about self-documenting during the pandemic for the Philadelphia civic organization, Friends in the City. These are some of the sources we used and resources that we highlighted in the program. There were others that are behind paywalls. If you would like to know more about a specific message point, we would love to hear from you and will do our best to help. Thanks for your interest!
Stay healthy and protect others as well.
A Journal of the Plague Year: Archive of CoVid-19, a virtual archive housed by the University of Arizona
https://covid19.omeka.net/about
The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history project focused on archiving the lived experience of the COVID-19 epidemic.
https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/covid-19oralhistoryproject/about?authuser=0
Atlanta History Center is collecting materials that illustrate how people are experiencing and responding to the COVID-19 crisis in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/research/corona-collective
Hindustan Times has a great article
Story Corps. More on that next week.
Daily Kos. Good article.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938616/-We-are-living-through-history-Write-it-down?
Neumann University Radio Station. They are doing useful work.
National Museum of American History sent our a rapid response team to collect pandemic materials.
Isolation Journals, a great way to start learning about journaling
https://www.suleikajaouad.com/the-isolation-journals
Hirshorn Museum – artists speak about life and art during the pandemic