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We're pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North's article, "California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic," published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians' (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best history article publ

Because COVID is ubiquitous, it is exhausting. However, we also knew we needed to do something. This forum is our compromise.

We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with

By Ellen Lamont, author of The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We DateAs Covid-19 ripped through the United States in early 2020, governors across the country began issuing social distancing mandates and shuttering restaurants. While these guidelines were intended to keep people phy

Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates

"Researchers can use autoethnography to demonstrate how abstract, abrupt, and vast changes affect particular lives: specific and contextual experiences of stress and survival, grief and loss, loneliness and connection, desires for structure and normalcy."