Our colleagues and collaborators at Ball State University Archives have been documenting the local pandemic experience. We’re happy to report that the collection is now…
It has been widely documented that the pandemic is exacerbating social inequalities—hitting some demographics (the poor and working class, people of color, essential workers) harder…
Beginning next week we are collecting from our volunteers accounts of how the pandemic has disrupted (or not) our sense of time. We’re wondering if things sped…
It’s become a veritable cliché of pandemic life: our ways of experiencing time seem to be warped or broken. Days or weeks seem interminable while…
Last September we told you about our contribution to Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, a volume of essays that explored the ways that academics were using digital…
This week we feature a diary that documents our historical moment in precise and personal terms. On January 3, diarist A07 found herself holed up in her parents’ home in…
January 3, 2021 was an in-between kind of day: a Sunday, the first of the year, a day off for most of our diarists, and for…
What is a ritual? Everyday Life in Middletown writers use the term to describe a wide variety of habitual practices, from morning coffee to watching baseball to sitting outside to…
More than a few of our recent blog entries have zeroed in on notable current events and trends, particularly the election and the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ve talked…
Think of the things you do almost every day, at the same times and in the same ways. Waking (to an alarm? A clock radio…