Find out where the cspan cities tour is going next online. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Next, on American History tv, university of pennsylvania history professor, kathy peiss examines the evolution of library and Information Science during world war ii. She argues what she says is an outline of a shift in the 1940s from librarians being neglected to being regarded as key figures. Its a little under 90 minutes. In recent years, scholars and the general public have learned about the exploits of american curators and Museum Officials in world war ii whos mission was to save the endangered art treasures in europe. I would note the work of the nicholas, robert, remarkable efforts to recover the Monuments Foundation and of course the 2014 George Clooney film. I should add monuments women, are compelling togethers. They are straight celebrated for the role they played in wartime. Absent from this story of individual heroism is any analysis and
Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.
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It’s been a lonely year. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of loneliness were skyrocketing around the world. Dr. Vivek Murthy who later became Surgeon General within the Biden Administration called it a silent and dangerous epidemic.
And now? The agony of spending so much time alone or in a tiny bubble is crushing many people.
For all the talk about loneliness, though, philosopher Samantha Rose Hill believes we don’t really understand it. We mistake it for social isolation; loneliness, she says, is different. It’s the uneasy encounter with ourselves that we all experience at times. And if we’re not comfortable with that kind of serious self-examination, we’ll try to run away from it.