Precedented: Lessons from history
The churn of day-to-day news makes it easy to forget that so much of what we're seeing now has happened in some way before. But history is full of lessons to offer the present. In our video series, “Precedented,” multimedia reporters Jessica Mendoza and Jingnan Peng look to the past to understand the challenges we face today and our way forward. From health care reform to economic crisis, we dig into the archives to find images, faces, and voices that show how history continues to resonate today.
[special project]Why disease boosts discrimination, and what that costs society (video)The coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. That wrongly placed a target on people of Asian heritage, and put larger populations at risk.
COVID-19 revives urgent call for universal health care (video)Coronavirus has triggered calls for U.S. health care reform, but this isn’t the first time. Postwar policy laid the groundwork for Medicare.
The COVID-19 economic crisis will hurt. Can history offer hope? (video)The coronavirus pandemic has created a unique economic crash. Yet past crises provide important perspectives on uncertainty, adaptability, and change.
National unity during crisis? Look to lessons from WWII. (video)Coronavirus isn’t the first global emergency the U.S. has faced while wrestling with deep internal divisions. Wartime has taught us to band together.
Violent racism: Can Floyd protests break an old cycle? (video)Cycles of racial violence, protest, and progress mark 20th- and 21st-century America. What will it take to move forward?
