American culture after life -- The present crisis -- El Paso in mourning / Monica MunĚoz Martinez -- 2020 : a year for epic victories amid historic loss / Mary Kathryn Nagle -- Guitars, dreams, dogs, and tears : grieving hard histories / Philip J. Deloria -- Somewhere, USA / Robert L. Tsai -- Confederates take the Capitol / Stephen Berry -- Two catastrophes and ten parallels : Lincoln's assassination and COVID-19 / Martha Hodes -- COVID-19 : a new "negro servants' disease" / Tera W. Hunter -- From the Colfax Massacre to the 2020 elections : white supremacist terrorism in America / Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall -- Man of means, by no means : king of the road / Rhae Lynn Barnes -- The afterlife of Black political radicalism / Peniel E. Joseph -- The grief that came before the grief : a home archive / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- An uncountable casualty : ruminations on the social life of numbers / Mary L. Dudziak -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / Keith Ellison -- Losing my Starbucks table / Ula Y. Taylor -- Buried history : the death and life of Donald S. Kelley / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Suicide and survival : deaths and despair in the 2020s / Keri Leigh Merritt -- "How do we life?" : a journal of a lost year / Scott Poulson-Bryant -- The permeability of cells : vulnerability and trauma in the age of mass incarceration / Heather Ann Thompson -- Dreams of my great-grandfather / Yohuru Williams -- Stress test and saving the soul of America / Keri Leigh Merritt and Yohuru Williams.
Summary:
This is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the attempted coup following the 2020 election. Inspired by writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration, the editors asked 21st century historians to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional "long 2020," and earlier eras in US history.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.