Open AccessThe Historian's Responsibility for the Future: Recording Covid-19 for the Next Generation
Author(s) -
Joe P. Dunn
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teaching history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2766-6174
pISSN - 0730-1383
DOI - 10.33043/th.46.1.23-25
Subject(s) - craft , covid-19 , context (archaeology) , history , sociology , political science , art , visual arts , medicine , virology , disease , archaeology , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This is a thought piece on the roles, responsibilities, and practices of being a historian. After examples of how a life is lived in historical context, the Covid crisis is employed as the example on how to practice our craft.