Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He als
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round-by-round scoring later in the show. first, the news at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. five days to go until the iowa caucuses and new polling shaking up the presidential republican field. in the latest cnn/time research poll, mitt romney on top with 25% support, ron paul a close second, still within the margin of error. the story, the latest republican candidate to surge, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. he jumps all the way up to third place in iowa. he has more than tripled his support in the state since the beginning of the month. santorum has invested just about all of his resources there. this comes at the expense of newt gingrich s who s plummeted to fourth place in the poll. you see him there at 14%. the right-hand column is instructive, down 19 points just since december 7th. rick perry and michele bachmann round out the top six, 11% and 9% respectively. important to note this only recorded republicans. while democrats can t caucus in io