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Dispatch from Quarantine: A Historiographical Analysis of the Presidential History Flash Cards that We Found Under the Bed

Barely a week into international quarantining and social distancing, people are finding new activities, hobbies, pastimes, and strategies to maintain a semblance of normalcy. My husband and I are no exception: we discovered a set of presidential history flash cards under the bed. The cards are from 2001. Please don’t poke fun at our age, but he received the cards as a gift when he was seven or eight years old in 2001. Pouring through presidential history flash cards on an average Sunday night at home, we wondered who wrote them, and what was their angle? I concluded that an Read more