HIST 300 VV
INTRO: People struggle to make “actual risks of the world around them manageable” (5) How “to make sense of disasters in the terms available and comfortable” to people? (5) Think of disasters in terms of: “impact . . . on local cultures” “disruption and transformation of familiar patterns” “responses of professional communities and organizational cultures”…
Davies, “The Historical Presidency” — President as “responder in chief” (530); “consoler in chief” (541) Alaska’s 1964 earthquake: 9.1 (estimate) on the Richter scale “The president said that this is a case of saving a state . . .” (535). “Traditionally, federal aid had been confined largely to infrastructural support, while relief for individual disaster…
Keep in mind Roberts’ points about: The importance of understanding what disaster meant to the past (vs. to today). “Disasters are socially constructed to the extent that they are a product of changing social expectations about the role of government . . .” (7); “. . . disaster is a changeable, socially-constructed process” (30). Community…
http://disasters.ferrellhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/week-2-August-31-Monday.pdf
There is no way that I can catch everything; tracking forms provide a useful but imperfect look at discussions. If, however, I missed something that you contributed and that you believe “really matters” (e.g., you set a goal of asking a question but I did not record it), indicate in your evaluation that you are…
