Holy Cross project chronicles COVID history and its impact in real time
Students work to preserve history while living it Worcester Magazine Living as we are during an unprecedented pandemic, Cynthia Hooper wanted her students to reflect on the making of history. She suggested that during a crisis, we don’t usually have the time and opportunity to consider the historical implications of what we are experiencing. But the associate professor of history and director of the Russian and Eastern European Studies program at the College of the Holy Cross knows, “history really matters and we are not usually attuned to consider the lessons or parallels that could be e...