In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...
"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just catching up on my latest diary entry." Wikimedia Commons Samuel Pepys kept a diary for just nine years. Thankfully for historians—if not for Pepys, who ...
In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...
Ute Lotz-Heumann, Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona, compares the response to the plague in the diary of Samuel Pepys with today’s pandemic in an article ...