Documenting COVID-19
Every American was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But every American's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was different. On March 11th, exactly five years since COVID-19 was designated as a pandemic by…
Contributor:
Martin, Allie - Peach, Douglas - Musgrave, Nicole - Vergara, Camilo Jose - Dellinger, Midge
Date:2025-03-11
Film, Video
COVID-19 and the Brain
The Library of Congress has collaborated with two expert speakers to help provide further information about COVID-19 associated brain disturbances and their genesis. Although the long-term impacts of COVID-19 are still being…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
Date:2021
Film, Video
Covid-19 in Asia
Numerous factors and dynamics have been observed in how the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded in different regions of the world. To fully understand the depth of the world's varied COVID-19 experiences, it…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Health Services Division
Date:2022
Film, Video
COVID-19 and Ethics: Disparity in Pandemics
Discussions about ethical considerations and disparities in COVID-19 infections have risen to prominence throughout this pandemic. The CDC has declared racism as a major public health issue as a result of the…
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2021
Film, Video
Influenza & COVID-19: What to Expect This Winter
The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to adjust rapidly to significant changes in our work and home lives. Just as many of us have found a somewhat new experience of normalcy in…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
Date:2020
Film, Video
COVID-19 and Our Environment
This webinar shares three different approaches of environmental detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: to detect outbreaks in its early stage using sewage water; to know the dispersion of the virus particles at…
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2021
Film, Video
How One Pandemic, SARS, Predicted Another, COVID-19
Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld discusses his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with Roswell Encina, chief of communications at the Library of Congress.
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Library of Congress
Contributor:
John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress
Date:2020
Film, Video
U.S. Fiscal Policy in the Wake of COVID-19
John W. Kluge Center Director John Haskell talks with economist Jason J. Fichtner on fiscal policy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fichtner and Haskell will consider the tools available to…
Contributor:
John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress
Date:2020
Film, Video
COVID-19: Stronger Together Through a One Health Approach
The Library of Congress Health Services Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division have collaborated with three expert speakers to provide the public with the latest information about the One Health…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Health Services Division
Date:2021
Film, Video
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
Watch a special event featuring Jeremy Brown, author of "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible." In his book, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Library of Congress
Contributor:
Grant, Anita E. - Watson Hughes, Billie
Date:2023
Film, Video
Karoline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-03
Karoline Davidson is a certified celebrant, crematory operator, funeral director, and embalmer who started her funeral service career in 2007 as an unlicensed funeral attendant. During this interview, Ms. Davidson shares her…
Contributor:
Maldonado, Joél Simone - Northey, Kari
Date:2024
Film, Video
Shannan Guillory interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-05
Shannan Guillory is a Los Angeles-based, fourteen-year funeral industry professional and a podcaster for the show I Do Death. In this interview, Guillory discusses pivoting to virtual arrangements, addressing regulatory challenges, and…
Chelsea Cush interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04
Chelsea Cush, a 2017 mortuary school graduate, is a full-time faculty member at Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science who, at the time of this interview, was pursuing a doctoral degree in education.…
Contributor:
Maldonado, Joél Simone - Cush, Chelsea
Date:2024
Film, Video
Dr. Hari P. Close interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22
Dr. Hari P. Close--a pastor, educator, funeral home owner, and funeral service licensee--is a first-generation funeral service professional based in Baltimore, Maryland. In this interview, Dr. Close discusses the impact of the…
Contributor:
Grant, Anita E. - Harvell, Shawn'te C. R.
Date:2023
Film, Video
Robert Barnes interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22
Robert Barnes has worked in the funeral service industry for over twenty-five years and became an owner of a funeral home in 2020. In this interview, Mr. Barnes discusses his membership in…
Contributor:
Grant, Anita E. - Barnes, Robert L.
Date:2023
Film, Video
Faith Haug interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04
Faith Haug is a Mortuary Science Program Chair at Arapahoe Community College, an openly queer funeral service professional, and a former liaison for Donor Alliance, an organ and tissue procurement agency. Faith's…
Contributor:
Haug, Faith - Maldonado, Joél Simone
Date:2024
Film, Video
Tryphina Wiseman interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22
Tryphina Wiseman is a second-generation funeral home owner and nationally recognized funeral service licensee based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In this interview, Ms. Wiseman recalls limiting work hours and services during the…
Contributor:
Wiseman, Tryphina - Johnson, Jasmine S.
Contributor:
Johnson, Jasmine S. - Douglass, Carlton C.
Date:2023
Film, Video
Lance Arnold interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22
Lance Arnold is a second-generation funeral service professional who serves as the Vice President and CFO of Arnold Family Funeral Services, Inc. - Hillside Chapel in Altadena, California. In this interview, Mr.…
Contributor:
Arnold, Lance N. - Johnson, Jasmine S.
Contributor:
Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Micaroni, Justin - Chatelain, Elise M. - Paxton, Christine
Date:2023
Film, Video
Follow The Music Interview: Cody "Coflo" Ferreira
Cody "Coflo" Ferreira talks about the Simmer Room and how it started as a necessity to maintain connections and practice spinning music and dancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. He and Ami have…
Contributor:
Ferreira, Ami Tsunami - Ferreira, Cody Coflo - Sarakul, Ryan - Kell-Abrams, Maya
Contributor:
Griffin, Shaquita - Micaroni, Justin - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Chatelain, Elise M.
Date:2023
Film, Video
Follow The Music Interview: Ami "Tsunami" Ferreira
Ami "Tsunami" Ferreira shares about the progression of Simmer Room, a House party that she and Cody "Coflo" Ferreira started during isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for the community…
Contributor:
Ferreira, Cody Coflo - Kell-Abrams, Maya - Sarakul, Ryan - Ferreira, Ami Tsunami
Date:2023-03-08
Film, Video
Jozie Hickman interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04
Jozie Hickman is a cremationist, certified celebrant, funeral director, and embalmer who graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in 2020. In this interview, Hickman discusses her unique experiences as a…
William Turner Heath interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-08-01
William Turner Heath is a licensed funeral director based in Gainesville, Florida. In this interview, Heath describes their many professional pursuits including being an artist, an end-of-life doula, a certified celebrant, and…
Contributor:
Heath, William Turner - Maldonado, Joél Simone
Date:2024
Film, Video
Jerri J. Reed-Taylor interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22
Jerri J. Reed-Taylor -- a first-generation funeral home owner, mortuary science instructor at Malcolm X College of Mortuary Science, and member of the Board of Trustees for the Academy of Professional Funeral…
Contributor:
Reed-Taylor, Jerri J. - Grant, Anita E.
Date:2023
Film, Video
Uncertainty and Loss: The Impact of the Pandemic
This webinar helps promote further understanding of the current COVID-19 pandemic and encourage a dialogue about coping skills and mental health. This webinar was lead by researchers and mental health experts from…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
Contributor:
Micaroni, Justin - Bernstein, Sara Tatyana - Chatelain, Elise M. - Callahan, Paulette
Date:2023
Film, Video
1918 Flu: What Did We Learn?
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to have significant changes to our work and home lives. After almost one year, when many of us have found a somewhat new normalcy in the…
Contributor:
Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division - Library of Congress
Film, VideoDocumenting COVID-19 Every American was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But every American's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was different. On March 11th, exactly five years since COVID-19 was designated as a pandemic by…
Film, VideoCOVID-19 and the Brain The Library of Congress has collaborated with two expert speakers to help provide further information about COVID-19 associated brain disturbances and their genesis. Although the long-term impacts of COVID-19 are still being…
Film, VideoCovid-19 in Asia Numerous factors and dynamics have been observed in how the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded in different regions of the world. To fully understand the depth of the world's varied COVID-19 experiences, it…
Film, VideoCOVID-19 and Ethics: Disparity in Pandemics Discussions about ethical considerations and disparities in COVID-19 infections have risen to prominence throughout this pandemic. The CDC has declared racism as a major public health issue as a result of the…
Film, VideoInfluenza & COVID-19: What to Expect This Winter The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to adjust rapidly to significant changes in our work and home lives. Just as many of us have found a somewhat new experience of normalcy in…
Film, VideoCOVID-19 and Our Environment This webinar shares three different approaches of environmental detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: to detect outbreaks in its early stage using sewage water; to know the dispersion of the virus particles at…
Film, VideoHow One Pandemic, SARS, Predicted Another, COVID-19 Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld discusses his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with Roswell Encina, chief of communications at the Library of Congress.
Film, VideoOur Past and Future of Living with COVID-19 Epidemic expert Stephen Morrison discusses what COVID-19 teaches us about global health security with the Library's John Haskell.
Film, VideoU.S. Fiscal Policy in the Wake of COVID-19 John W. Kluge Center Director John Haskell talks with economist Jason J. Fichtner on fiscal policy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fichtner and Haskell will consider the tools available to…
Film, VideoCOVID-19: Stronger Together Through a One Health Approach The Library of Congress Health Services Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division have collaborated with three expert speakers to provide the public with the latest information about the One Health…
Film, VideoThe Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 Watch a special event featuring Jeremy Brown, author of "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible." In his book, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the…
Film, VideoNo One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19 The Library's John Hessler and Marie Arana discuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to the meticulous work that is being…
Film, VideoCreative or Destructive Force? COVID-19, Russia & European Democracies Constanze Stelzenmüller and Andrew Weiss discuss what systems are handling the pandemic better and why, how the European Union is dealing with the pandemic, internal politics in Russia, and how all of…
Film, VideoBillie Watson Hughes interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 Billie Watson Hughes was initially licensed in 1962 as a funeral service professional. In this interview, she discusses the impact of technology during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as funeral…
Film, VideoKaroline Davidson interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-03 Karoline Davidson is a certified celebrant, crematory operator, funeral director, and embalmer who started her funeral service career in 2007 as an unlicensed funeral attendant. During this interview, Ms. Davidson shares her…
Film, VideoKari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-02 Kari Northey is a funeral director, embalmer, and a mom to two little girls. She has been in the funeral service industry for 30 years and licensed for 22 years. In this…
Film, VideoShannan Guillory interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-05 Shannan Guillory is a Los Angeles-based, fourteen-year funeral industry professional and a podcaster for the show I Do Death. In this interview, Guillory discusses pivoting to virtual arrangements, addressing regulatory challenges, and…
Film, VideoJimmie D. Boldien interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22 Jimmie Boldien is the owner of Rolfe Funeral Home of Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma. In this interview, Mr. Boldien shares some of the unique challenges of owning a funeral home that was established…
Film, VideoBreanna Williams interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-03 Breanna Williams, a mom of three children who were all under the age of eleven at the time of this interview, has been a licensed crematory operator since 2018. During this interview,…
Film, VideoChelsea Cush interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04 Chelsea Cush, a 2017 mortuary school graduate, is a full-time faculty member at Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science who, at the time of this interview, was pursuing a doctoral degree in education.…
Film, VideoDr. Hari P. Close interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 Dr. Hari P. Close--a pastor, educator, funeral home owner, and funeral service licensee--is a first-generation funeral service professional based in Baltimore, Maryland. In this interview, Dr. Close discusses the impact of the…
Film, VideoShawn'te Harvell interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 Shawn’te Harvel is a millennial who has been involved in the funeral industry since the age of 17. In this interview, he discusses his ownership and management of Smith Funeral Home in…
Film, VideoRobert Barnes interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 Robert Barnes has worked in the funeral service industry for over twenty-five years and became an owner of a funeral home in 2020. In this interview, Mr. Barnes discusses his membership in…
Film, VideoFaith Haug interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04 Faith Haug is a Mortuary Science Program Chair at Arapahoe Community College, an openly queer funeral service professional, and a former liaison for Donor Alliance, an organ and tissue procurement agency. Faith's…
Film, VideoTryphina Wiseman interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22 Tryphina Wiseman is a second-generation funeral home owner and nationally recognized funeral service licensee based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In this interview, Ms. Wiseman recalls limiting work hours and services during the…
Film, VideoCarlton C. Douglass interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22 As early as elementary school, Carlton C. Douglass knew that he wanted to be a funeral service professional. In this interview, Douglass, a five-plus decade licensee, speaks about the exorbitant cost of…
Film, VideoLance Arnold interview conducted by Jasmine Johnson, 2023-10-22 Lance Arnold is a second-generation funeral service professional who serves as the Vice President and CFO of Arnold Family Funeral Services, Inc. - Hillside Chapel in Altadena, California. In this interview, Mr.…
Film, VideoDr. Jennifer Lares interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-08-16 Dr. Jennifer Lares, a licensed funeral director and embalmer for almost three decades, is the founder of Mulling Mortician, a company providing custom onsite and virtual training and education. For over eight…
Film, VideoWilliam "Bill" Harris interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 William “Bill” Harris is the owner of five funeral homes and cemeteries located in metropolitan and suburban St. Louis, Missouri, who began his first part-time funeral home job in his early teens.…
Film, VideoChristine Paxton Interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, 2023-11-03 Christine Paxton is sales director at Chateau Lemoyne Hotel in the French Quarter in New Orleans. She discusses her work in hospitality in New Orleans since the late 1990s. When the COVID-19…
Film, VideoFollow The Music Interview: Cody "Coflo" Ferreira Cody "Coflo" Ferreira talks about the Simmer Room and how it started as a necessity to maintain connections and practice spinning music and dancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. He and Ami have…
BlogWatch a Recording of our Human Rights Day Panel Discussion on Contact Tracing and the Right … A recording of the Law Library's 2020 Human Rights Day panel discussion on contact tracing and the right of privacy is now available.
Film, VideoShaquita Griffin interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, 2023-11-05 Shaquita Griffin is a stand-up comic and community organizer who also has worked a variety of jobs in the service/hospitality industries. She talks about working in a hotel when the pandemic hit…
Film, VideoFollow The Music Interview: Ami "Tsunami" Ferreira Ami "Tsunami" Ferreira shares about the progression of Simmer Room, a House party that she and Cody "Coflo" Ferreira started during isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for the community…
Film, VideoJozie Hickman interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-04 Jozie Hickman is a cremationist, certified celebrant, funeral director, and embalmer who graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in 2020. In this interview, Hickman discusses her unique experiences as a…
Film, VideoWilliam Turner Heath interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-08-01 William Turner Heath is a licensed funeral director based in Gainesville, Florida. In this interview, Heath describes their many professional pursuits including being an artist, an end-of-life doula, a certified celebrant, and…
Film, VideoJerri J. Reed-Taylor interview conducted by Anita Grant, 2023-10-22 Jerri J. Reed-Taylor -- a first-generation funeral home owner, mortuary science instructor at Malcolm X College of Mortuary Science, and member of the Board of Trustees for the Academy of Professional Funeral…
Film, VideoUncertainty and Loss: The Impact of the Pandemic This webinar helps promote further understanding of the current COVID-19 pandemic and encourage a dialogue about coping skills and mental health. This webinar was lead by researchers and mental health experts from…
Film, VideoPaulette Callahan interview conducted by Elise Chatelain and Sara Bernstein, 2023-11-07 Paulette Callahan has been bartending in New Orleans for 25 years and has worked at The Chart Room in the French Quarter for the last ten years. She also owns a business…
Film, Video1918 Flu: What Did We Learn? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to have significant changes to our work and home lives. After almost one year, when many of us have found a somewhat new normalcy in the…