Scott Borchert is the author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. Here is a taste of his recent piece at The New York Times: Opponents will complain about excessive spending or subversive...
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Oral history and COVID-19
Historians have a lot of work to do capturing the stories of men and women who survived COVID-19, lived through this presidential election, and took to the streets to protest racism in 2020. Over at JSTOR Daily, Lucie Levine suggests...