'The stories a nation tells itself matter': how will the COVID generation remember 2020?
- Written by Katie Holmes, Professor of History, La Trobe University
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The speed with which the COVID-19 virus infected the world and the dramatic nature of its fallout is without parallel. Individually and collectively we have struggled to understand and process it. Early on in the pandemic, journalists looked to historians to help make sense of what was happening and to read from the past the possible impacts of this moment on the future. Experts on past pandemics tried to shed light on how we might recover, and on the prospective local and global consequences of this COVID-19 catastrophe.
Authors: Katie Holmes, Professor of History, La Trobe University