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COVID Recollections: “Documenting COVID-19: A Panel Discussion on Community-Based Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Now Available Online

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

On March 11, 2025, the American Folklife Center held a panel discussion with four cultural documentarians of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the COVID-19 American History Project. In this post, we feature the webcast of the panel discussion, alongside photos from the event.

Posted in: African Americans, Archival Practice, COVID-19 American History Project, COVID-19 pandemic, ethnomusicologists, Fieldwork, Folklorists, Kentucky, Latino/a, Narratives, Native American History, New York, Ohio, Oral History, Photographs, Storytelling

Female child care worker posing for photograph in her workplace.

COVID Recollections: New Collection of 25 COVID-19 Interviews with Childcare Workers in Appalachia, Now Available Online

Posted by: Douglas D. Peach

In this post, the American Folklife Center announces the online publication of a new interview collection from the COVID-19 American History Project—It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers’ COVID-19 Experiences. The collection features 25 interviews with rural childcare workers in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee, detailing their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted in: Appalachia, COVID-19 American History Project, COVID-19 pandemic, Fieldwork, Folklorists, Narratives, Oral History