[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 4/17/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Dr. Fauci and My Mom"*
<https://nursingclio.org/2020/04/14/dr-fauci-and-my-mom>
By *Molly Ladd-Taylor, **Nursing Clio, *posted April 14
*A short article - a historian's personal story from the 1980s. The author
teaches history at York University in Toronto.*

*"The Other Pandemic"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174977>
By* Alan M. Kraut, *History News Network, posted April 12
*On the scapegoating of ethnic minorities during epidemics in US history,
going back to cholera in 1832, blamed on Irish Catholics. The author
teaches history at American University, where he is also an affiliate
faculty member of the Public Health Program.*

*"April Is the Cruelest Month: Teaching History Now"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174970>
By* Carolyn Eisenberg, *History News Network, posted April 12

*"Zooming or not, we have an extraordinary opportunity to engage our young
people with the most important issues in their life-time." The author
teaches history at Hofstra University. Her e-mailing from last week,
"Teaching Resources Pertaining to the Current Crisis,"
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/2020/04/09/teaching-resources-pertaining-to-the-current-crisis/>
is on the H-PAD website.*

*"Herbert Hoover and Donald Trump: Two Studies in Failed Crisis Leadership"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174976>
By* Robert Rupp, *History News Network, posted April 12
*The author teaches history and political science at West Virginia Wesleyan
College.*

*"Trump Reveals the Truth about Voter Suppression"
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/sunday/republicans-voter-suppression.html>*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/sunday/republicans-voter-suppression.html>
By* David W. Blight, **New York Times, *posted April 11
*"The president is the latest in a long line of conservative politicians to
see minority voters as a threat." The author teaches history at Yale
University and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for history with his biography
of Frederick Douglass.*

*"William R. Polk, Historian and Middle East Envoy, Dies at 91"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/william-polk-dead.html>
*By Katharine Q. Seelye, **New York Times, *posted April 10
*The extraordinary life of a historian and former government official whose
commentaries on US policy and world affairs have been included in several
of these article listings over the past decade.*

*"Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?"*
<https://original.antiwar.com/lawrence-wittner/2020/04/10/will-the-coronavirus-pandemic-help-curb-war-and-militarism>
By* Lawrence Wittner,* Antiwar.com, posted April 11
*The author is a professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albny.*

*"How Pandemics Seep into Literature"*
<https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/04/08/how-pandemics-seep-into-literature>
By *Elizabeth Outka, **Paris Review, *posted April 8
*On how the 1918 flu epidemic influenced writers (T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Woolf, W. B. Yeats, H. P. Lovecraft among them) in the interwar period. The
author teaches literature at the University of Richmond and has written *Viral
Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature
*(Columbia U. Press, 2019).*


*"Republicans Could Use the Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the
Country. This Week We Got a Preview"
<https://time.com/5817380/voter-suppression-coronavirus>*
By* Carol Anderson, **Time, *posted April 7
*The author teaches African American Studies at Emory University and has
written *One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our
Democracy* (2018).*


*Thanks to an anonymous reader for suggesting several of the above
articles, and to the History News Network for leading to several others.
Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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