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Video: The fashionable history of social distancing

  • Written by Anurag Papolu, Multimedia Editor
An 18th-century illustration of a woman in a crinoline. James Francis Driscoll collection of historical American sheet music/The Internet Archive, CC BY-SA

This video is based on an article by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.

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