Historical News Articles: The First Known Cases of COVID-19

December 31 will mark the third anniversary of the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission’s report of a cluster of pneumonia outbreaks to the World Health Organization.  Though no one knew it at the time, these cases would go on to be the first documented cases of COVID-19.  Today reading the first mention of these cases in the…
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Sign & Symbol: The Tree

From Japan’s Sakaki trees…to the European Christmas tree: there are countless historical and contemporary examples of humans investing trees with symbolic meaning. (Hellerman 468) The tree has proven to be a rich source of symbolic meaning across human cultures. With branches that reach skyward and roots that extend below, there is a symmetry and a…
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