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Title: Max Blease Interview, November 28, 2020
Date: November 28, 2020
Creator: Max Blease
Description: Max is a senior in college who will likely be graduating online. He finds that online classes also don't fit his learning style and that time slips by without scheduled events. The isolation is getting to him and to be safe during the recent holiday he celebrated Thanksgiving with just his mom. He acknowledges his privileges: not knowing anyone, including his family, has gotten COVID-19; he does not have be exposed to the public regularly like essential workers. He hopes we continue to talk about problems that impact our infrastructure and political divisions that have been more obvious during this time.
Subject: COVID-19
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2406
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Title: Megan Beyer Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Suggs, Vernon; Beyer, Megan; Suggs, Vernon; Beyer, Megan
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; politics; journalism; arts; President Obama; cuba
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3074
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Title: Mel Scullen Interview, September 11, 2021
Date: September 11, 2021
Creator: Scullen, Mel; Whitehurst, Angie; Scullen, Mel; Whitehurst, Angie
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; teaching; students; education; language
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3179
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Title: Melissa Hawkins Interview, October 3, 2020
Date: October 3, 2020
Creator: Melissa Hawkins; Laura Sislen
Description: From the American University Department of Health Studies and Humanities Truck Fellow, Melissa Hawkins discusses the evolving impact of COVID-19. In some ways 7 months feels like a lifetime ago. The impact has been different for each member of her family including her 4 children such as adjusting to online schooling. She reflects on how fortunate the family has been to not be afflicted by job loss or illness; the day-to-day adjustments have been more impactful. Some silver-linings include: the amount of time spent together, re-evaluating what's important, who's important, and reaching out to loved ones. What keeps them going? Their pets! As there are many revealing lessons about the fragmentation of the health care and public health systems, Melissa, who works in public health, reflects on the mistrust of science and scientists that became apparent through this and hopes to build that trust to rely on science in times of uncertainty.
Subject: American University; Humanities Truck; Washington, DC; professor; COVID-19; COVID; coronavirus; pandemic; public health; family; science; online
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2276
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Title: Mengxi "Althea" Rao Interview, May 14, 2020
Date: May 14, 2020
Creator: Mengxi "Althea" Rao; Naoko Wowsugi; Naoko Wowsugi
Description: Artist Althea Rao reflects upon the impact of COVID in her life, especially in relation to immigration issues she has been experiencing since August 2019. Althea is from China, and shares that COVID has not had too much of an impact on her because she's been experiencing many of the issues (unemployment, lack of healthcare, etc.) since the beginning of her problems with immigration. While on a day-to-day level her life has changed with new social distancing measures, she believes that her life has been in limbo for a long time, and she feels full of sympathy for those who are now feeling frustrated with their current situation. Because of her immigration issues, Althea shares that she has not felt the need to find something new to sustain her, but points to her long-term art project with local communities as a positive force. Althea discusses how COVID has impacted the relationship between China and the US, and has shaped the perception and experiences of Asian Americans. She ends by reflecting on how COVID has brought death closer to her and people throughout the world. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: New Haven, CT; ArtSpace; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; art; artist; immigration; China; unemployment; healthcare; social distancing; Asia; Asian Americans; racism; death
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2137
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Title: Mia Moss Interview, October 25, 2020
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Mia Moss; Josh Reynolds
Description: Oral history interview with Mia Moss, owner of Black Coffee, a local coffee shop on the East Side of Fort Worth, Texas. Moss is a native of Fort Worth, living primarily on the East side. She feels very attached to her community and saw opening a business that expresses her coffee passion would be a way to give back to her community. She discusses her family and education growing up, her introduction into the coffee world, her experiences with racism, both professionally and personally, the COVID-19 outbreak and its lasting effects, and the effects of the Black Lives Matter social justice movement. This interview was recorded virtually (hence the two locations) through a website called TheirStory.io.
Subject: DFW; Dallas, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Black Coffee; Black business; coffee; pandemic; East Fort Worth; coffee shop; 2020; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Montessori Schools; O. D. Wyatt High School; Southwest High School; Texas Wesleyan University; Tarrant County College; Seattle’s Best; advocacy; 2020 general election; racism; Black Lives Matter; George Floyd; economy; 2020 stimulus package
Country: United States
Collection: Dallas-Fort Worth Black Business in 2020 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2581
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Title: Michael Burke Kirby Interview, September 18, 2021
Date: September 18, 2021
Creator: Burke Kirby, Michael; Whitehurst, Angie; Burke Kirby, Michael; Whitehurst, Angie
Subject: working in dc; labor; labor day; workers; pride; National Endowment for the Arts; campaigns; government
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3188
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Title: Michelle Allen Interview, November 5, 2021
Date: 2022-02-16; 2022-02-16
Creator: Michelle Allen; Carol Johnson
Country: United States
Collection: Oral History Project about Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants
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Title: Miu Eng Interview, October 16, 2021
Date: October 16, 2021
Creator: Eng, Miu; Kerr, Dan; Eng, Miu; Kerr, Dan
Description: Miu Eng discusses how she first became interested in art, her childhood in DC, and her memories of DC's Chinatown. She elaborates on the themes of her four posters—"A People Emerging," "Strangers No More," "Working Together," and "Perseverance and Progress"—first created for Asian Pacific American Heritage Week in the early 1980s. She offers her thoughts on the ways Asian Americans find community in DC today through various organizations.
Subject: art; Chinatown; Asian American history; poster; childhood; graphic design; community; Asian Pacific American Heritage W
Country: United States
Collection: Miu Eng Poster Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3216
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Title: Nancy Shia Interview: Interviewer Reflection
Date: October 10, 2021
Creator: Evan Michales
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Evan Michales, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Country: United States
Collection: Nancy Shia Interview, October 10, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3589
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Title: Nancy Shia Interview, October 10, 2021
Date: 2022-02-25; 2022-02-25
Creator: Nancy Shia; Evan Michales
Country: United States
Collection: DC Photographers
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Title: Nancy Shia Interview, October 10, 2021
Date: October 10, 2021
Creator: Nancy Shia; Evan Michales
Description: In this interview, Nancy Shia discusses the path that led to her photographic career as well as many important experiences that she has had throughout that career. Additionally, she discusses her involvement with the neighborhood of Adams Morgan and the changes that Adams Morgan and DC has gone through throughout her life, highlighting events like the current struggle against the development of the Adams Morgan Plaza.
Subject: Adams Morgan; Anacostia Community Museum; Anita Hill; Cuba; COVID-19; Dorothea Lange; Eddie Becker; January 6, 2021; Latinx; Marion Barry; Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library; Martinsburg, WV; National Press Building; New Haven, CT; New York City; Norman Mayer; photography; police; poverty; Teaching for Change; Truist Bank; Walter Pierce; Washington, DC; Washington Informer
Country: United States
Collection: Nancy Shia Interview, October 10, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3594
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Title: Naoko Wowsugi Interview, May 18, 2020
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Naoko Wowsugi
Description: Naoko Wowsugi, a Humanities Truck fellow and studio art professor at American University, discusses how COVID has impacted her as an immigrant, an artist, and an educator. She shares how she experienced COVID a bit earlier than those in the US, since she was in Japan with family during the initial outbreak in Wuhan. She was worried the virus would impact her travel plans, but ultimately made it back to the US before travel bans went into place. Naoko talks about how COVID has cancelled or postponed the projects she was working on as an artist, including her project with the Humanities Truck as a fellow. She shares how she took in-person meetings with people for granted, and has had to adjust to replicating those interactions online. Naoko finds hope in the number of people who have come forward to help their communities and put their lives at risk to save others. She hopes we will reflect on issues of gentrification and displacement as a result of the virus, and learn about what is really essential to our lives and how those essential things should be shared equally. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; Humanities Truck; professor; artist; immigrant; Japan; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; family; travel; community; technology; volunteer; essential workers; gentrification; displacement; equality
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2149
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Title: NaZir Howard Interview, August 24, 2019
Date: August 24, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; NaZir Howard
Description: Fourth grader NaZir Howard discusses what he likes about Anacostia Park. He's been coming for about a month, and enjoys skating, the events, and the basketball courts. He likes to skate because it allows him to express himself and it's okay to make mistakes. He talks about how the Park should include more go-go in the music they play. He ends with a word to his friends: "if you ever feel the need to come skating, this is the spot!"
Subject: Anacostia Park (Washington, D.C.); National Park Service -- Anacostia Park; Late Skate in Anacostia Park; Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative; Anacostia Park Skating Pavilion; Roller skating; Go-go; Basketball courts; School children in Washington, D.C.
Country: United States
Collection: Late Skate, August 24, 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2051
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Title: Neta Vaught Interview, June 22, 2019
Date: June 22, 2019
Creator: Hannah Byrne; Neta Vaught
Description: Neta Vaught -- Washingtonian native, mother of five, and mental health advocate -- shares her experiences with go-go music. She defines go-go music as something different that brings families and communities together, and shares that this event at Anacostia Park brought her own family together. She reflects on her time going to go-gos as a teenager, going on go-go bus trips, and performing in a go-go band. She sees a strong connection between go-go and DC: "go-go music is DC's culture, it's who we are. We're born into it, we can't get away from it."
Subject: Anacostia Park (Washington, D.C.); National Park Service -- Anacostia Park; Late Skate in Anacostia Park; Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative; Anacostia Park Skating Pavilion; Roller skating
Country: United States
Collection: Late Skate, June 22, 2019
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2088
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Title: Nia's Birthday: Karen Abbott Interview, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott describes this scene, titled “Nia’s Birthday,” adding that birthdays were a special holiday for her mother. A little girl, Nia, receives presents from her mother and father in their kitchen, where a cake has been prepared for the celebration.
Subject: dioramas; birthday; celebration; parties; family; craft; art
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3144
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Title: Nicholas Anderson Interview, October 2, 2020
Date: October 2, 2020
Creator: Nicholas Anderson; Emily Lefeber
Description: Nicholas Anderson is a current high school senior at the Harlan Community High School (HCHS) in Harlan, Iowa. Located in rural western Iowa, the Harlan Community is feeling the effects of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. In this interview, Nicholas discusses his experiences as HCHS was forced to shut down at the beginning of the pandemic, returning to school in the spring, and his plans to become a lineman in the future.
Subject: Harlan, IA; Iowa; rural Iowa; Harlan Community High School; COVID-19; Coronavirus; pandemic; CDC restrictions; Center for Disease Control; media perception; politics; public health; masks; mental health; student; teenagers; childhood; Fareway Grocery Stores; education; social media; Donald Trump; apprenticeship
Country: United States
Collection: Coming of Age During COVID-19: High School Seniors in Rural Iowa on the COVID-19 Pandemic
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2512
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Title: Nicolás Interview, May 19, 2020
Date: May 19, 2020
Creator: Nicolás; Ludy Grandas
Description: Eighth-grader Nicolás shares how COVID has impacted his life. He says that he hasn't been able to see his friends, and worries that because school has been cancelled, that high school will not start when it is supposed to for him. Nicolás talks about how his family and friends have kept him going, and hopes that we can all learn to set our differences aside to solve this problem as fast as we can. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
Subject: Arlington, VA; COVID; COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; school; student; friends; family; school cancellation; collaboration
Country: United States
Collection: From Me To You: A COVID-19 Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2155
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Title: Nicole Williams Interview, November 10, 2020
Date: November 10, 2020
Creator: Nicole Williams; Alexis Zilen
Description: The idea of a “new normal” has become common rhetoric within the United States as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This new normal includes not only updated health consciousness but larger structural transformations in economics and politics. This project will focus on a few microcosms of transformation; the rise of unemployment and the impact of the creative arts, and the effects of mental health during the ongoing pandemic. Overall, Alexis Zilen's interview with Nicole Williams will provide insight into the new normal and the transformation of American creative culture during the pandemic. This interview was completed virtually.
Subject: Cherry Hill, NJ; divorced parents; Cherry Hill High School; mental health; Ithaca, NY; coping mechanism; escape; Seattle, WA; summer camp; nanny; social media; quarantine; mental illness; therapy; community college; COVID-19; Coronavirus; pandemic; unemployment; writing
Country: United States
Collection: Constructing the New Normal: Creative Arts in the Wake of COVID-19
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2525
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Title: Odessa Blythe Interview, November 22, 2021
Date: November 22, 2021
Creator: Renaldie Paul; Odessa Blythe
Description: Odessa Blythe is a skilled home-based braider in Miami, who defines herself as an African American woman that is driven by God and her loved ones. Odessa has been braiding full time for almost 3 years now after leaving the social work field. Odessa's personality was vibrant and impactful. A compelling figure to interview. The interview was conducted November 22, 2021. Refer to the background journal entry for more information. Interviews conducted for American University's Fall 2021 Oral History course by Renaldie Paul.
Subject: Oral History; Afro-textured hair; Black hair; hair braiding; Women; Generation
Country: United States
Collection: Odessa Blythe Interview, November 22, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3568
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