by jpitney | May 3, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus, Presidency
A Message from President George W. Bush@TheCalltoUnite pic.twitter.com/FIn9wuOPTF — George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) May 2, 2020
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus
Jim Elliott at The Missoula Current: In the 1990s I would talk to people who had long memories of hard times in America. They would bemoan, even in the ‘90s, the decline of civility and unity, and inevitably they would recall their lives in the Great Depression and...
by jpitney | Apr 1, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Coronavirus
Michael Apfeldorf at the Library of Congress. In 1918, the United States faced one of the worst public health challenges in its history. An influenza pandemic – also known as the Spanish flu – infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, killing 20-50 million...
