After Lifeampamp160is a collective history of how Americans experienced navigated commemorated and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID19 pandemic mass uprisings for racial justice and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.ampamp160Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration WPA the editors asked twentyfirstcentury historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels convergences and differences between the exceptional ampamp34long 2020ampamp34 while it unfolds and earlier eras in U.S. History.Providing context for the entire volumeampamp160After Lifesampamp160Introduction explains how COVID19 and Americas long history of inequality combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government produced one of the darkest times in our nationampamp8217s history. Discussing the rise of the COVID19 death toll in the United States eventually exceeding the 1918 flu the AIDS epidemic and the Civil War it ties public health immigration white supremacy elections history and epidemics together and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.After Lifeampamp160documents how Americans have dealt with grief pain and loss both individually and communally and how we endure and thrive.