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Film, Video Jill Lepore on How This Pandemic Will Go Down in History

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Title

  • Jill Lepore on How This Pandemic Will Go Down in History

Summary

  • As part of our "National Book Festival Presents" series, Jill Lepore (bestselling historian and Harvard professor) and John Haskell (director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress) discuss how the current pandemic, its effects and our reaction to them say something very real about America in this moment and in the historical record that will emerge from it.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-05-21.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Understanding Pandemics. 6
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Medicine.
  • -  Jill Lepore, John Haskell.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-05-21.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696880

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Jill Lepore on How This Pandemic Will Go Down in History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21, 2020. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696880/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2020) Jill Lepore on How This Pandemic Will Go Down in History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696880/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Jill Lepore on How This Pandemic Will Go Down in History. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696880/>.