US History: Living History Project (2024)
Reference, primary sources, news coverage, and web resources to help you contextualize the period of U.S. history you are researching.
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COVID-19 Resources
Overviews/Background
- COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
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Archival Resources and Collections
- Coronavirus Portal
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All of the NYT's coronavirus coverage from 2020 until now in one place. Includes primary source materials. - Coronavirus: Essential News
Essential news for Illinoisans.
Impacts on Daily Life
- American Household Wealth Jumped in the PandemicPandemic stimulus, a strong job market and climbing stock and home prices boosted net worth at a record pace, Federal Reserve data showed.
Essential Workers
- The Men and Women Who Run Toward the Dying
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Meet the New York City chaplains praying for coronavirus patients. - Chicago coronavirus: Some communities where essential workers live being hit hard by COVID-19 infections and deaths
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Includes video (2:41) - Heroes of the Front Lines
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Stories of the courageous workers risking their own lives to save ours
Political Fallout (Masks, Vaccines, & The Origins of the Virus)
- Face masks make a political statement in era of coronavirus (2020)
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- Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is so disputed
More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery.
Top US News Sources
- New York Times
Arguably the most influential paper in the US.
The editorial page leans slightly to the left but they have regular columnists on staff whose worldviews come from a broad cross section of the mainstream left & right.
- Wall Street Journal
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The gold standard for business and finance journalism.
The editorial page has the motto "free markets, free people" so their commentators generally reflect this worldview. Several key mainstream republican thinkers are among the regular contributors.
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- Axios
"Axios gets you smarter, faster with news & information that matters." - Washington Post
The best news resource for Washington, DC politics. This is the paper that broke the Watergate scandal.
The editorial page leans center left. - Washington Post via ProQuest
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