Writing History in the Time of COVID-19: Historian Timothy LeCain on the Third Warning, Microscopic Records and Societal Change

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COVID-19 changes people’s lives, fears, hopes, and behaviours across the globe right now. In his recent Cambridge University Press monograph The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past, Professor Timothy James LeCain (Montana State University) writes about the "fellow travelers" that "make us human". He call this an ever-evolving relationship "that can be both wonderfully creative and horrifically destructive." In this interview with Stefan Hanß, Timothy James LeCain discusses how COVID-19 forces us to face the microscopic record of the material world, and to reconsider our own approach to it. How does the current coronavirus pandemic affect historians' methodological thinking?

Period24 Apr 2020

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  • TitleWriting History in the Time of COVID-19: Historian Timothy LeCain on the Third Warning, Microscopic Records and Societal Change
    Date24/04/20
    DescriptionCOVID-19 changes people’s lives, fears, hopes, and behaviours across the globe right now. In his recent Cambridge University Press monograph The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past, Professor Timothy James LeCain (Montana State University) writes about the "fellow travelers" that "make us human". He call this an ever-evolving relationship "that can be both wonderfully creative and horrifically destructive." In this interview with Stefan Hanß, Timothy James LeCain discusses how COVID-19 forces us to face the microscopic record of the material world, and to reconsider our own approach to it. How does the current coronavirus pandemic affect historians' methodological thinking?
    URLhttps://sites.manchester.ac.uk/microscopic-records/2020/04/24/writing-history-in-the-time-of-covid-19-historian-timothy-lecain-on-the-third-warning-microscopic-records-and-societal-change/
    PersonsStefan Hanß
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