Historical Context on Coronavirus and the Campaign

Camp Funston, at Fort Riley, Kansas, during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, co-host of the podcast Politics and Polls, and author of the forthcoming Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party (Penguin Press, 2020) , offers historical context for the current crisis and the upcoming election.