Circulating Now welcomes Hartmut Schulz, PhD, and Gerhard Dirlich, PhD, to share their research on an anonymous sleep journal in the collections of the National
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Circulating Now welcomes Hartmut Schulz, PhD, and Gerhard Dirlich, PhD, to share their research on an anonymous sleep journal in the collections of the National
Anderson R. Abbott is among 13 known African Americans that served as surgeons during the American Civil War and one of only two that were commissioned officers in the U.S. Army.
By Nicole Baker ~ In 1935 Louis I. Dublin, Ph.D., a vice president and statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, published “Lost Mothers,” an
By Anne Rothfeld ~ What motivates a rare book collector? A medical professional naturally accumulates an array of reference books particularly around their specialization. But
By James Labosier ~ The task of producing typed transcriptions of handwritten texts involves familiarity. Often on first glance 18th and 19th century handwriting is
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Winston Black, PhD, from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, to share his research on the oldest European
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Zach Utz, MA, Archivist and Public Historian, from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) History of Genomics Program—the only
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger David Cantor to discuss a newly digitized collection of materials related to medicine and film compiled by Adolf Nichtenhauser (1903–1953).
By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ January is National Soup Month, and for obvious reasons. This is the middle of winter for those of us in
By Kaveri Curlin ~ Dr. Leonidas Berry was born into a strong religious tradition. According to his 1982 autobiography I Wouln’t Take Nothin’ For My