This digital museum accompanies Peacock and Peterson’s book, A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year. Beacon Press, 2022.
The DAILY ENTRIES cover 200 days of the year 2020. Search for a particular day using the tool in upper right corner of the site, or just get started here!. You can explore over 12,000 sources collected from the year, along with an extraordinary amount of additional material including interview transcripts, social media posts, submitted eyewitness accounts, and plenty of historical analysis.
In the EXHIBITS section are housed essays from scholars around the country, creative works submitted by renowned artists, and meritorious undergraduate research projects—all of them dedicated to the study of 2020.
Memory fades. Alongside the book, this site is an attempt to keep that memory raw. You might disagree with our analyses of these events. We encourage you to examine the sources for yourself. There are certain realities about this year that should not be forgotten. Yet Americans, as we found, too often substitute folklore for history.
Supported By:
Project Status:
Live
Website Link:
https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/
Project Owner(s):
Margaret Peacock
Erik Peterson
Discipline:
History
Research Method(s):
Documentary Research
Primary Sources
Topic(s):
COVID-19
Suggested Citation:
Peacock, Margaret, and Erik Peterson. “Journal of A Pandemic Year.” Alabama Digital Humanities Center. https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/.