Same Storm, Different Boats: Documenting the Living History of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: Biographical, Documentary, and Life Writing Approaches Across Disciplines

Abstract

Documenting the human experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial to preserving the history of this extraordinary time that we live. Documenting youth experiences during the pandemic is beneficial to not only gaining insights from our youngest citizens about how they were impacted by COVID-19, but how student research about the causes and impact of the pandemic can promote historical empathy. Research is growing about the challenges, and in some cases potential benefits, that students, teachers, schools, and communities faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project aims at contributing to this scholarship by examining how high school students’ local history research and personal reflections about the pandemic can foster HE and impact their civic engagement in their community.

Authors

• Katherine Perrotta, Mercer University
  Presenting Author

• Katlynn T. Cross, Mercer University
  Presenting Author