Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Lori A. Brown, curator and architect of Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, a
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Purple Coffins: Death Care and Life Extension in 20th Century American South
Circulating Now welcomes Kristine M. McCusker, PhD, to share her research on changes in public health and funeral customs in
Juneteenth: History and Healing
On June 19, 1866, the first Juneteenth commemoration was held at Emancipation Park, on land in Houston that had been purchased by newly free African Americans, but freedom did not convey equality.
“St. John’s Court Is No More”: Code Enforcement and The Baltimore Plan for Housing
By Daniel G. Cumming ~ It was an unusual commute. In the late 1930s, Dr. Huntington Williams, commissioner of the
Race, Pseudoscience, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
By Erika Mills and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) tells the unsettling
(Un)fit to Nurse: Efficiency and Discipline at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898–1916
An interview with Ren Capucao, MSN, RN on his NLM History Talk and his research on the Philippine General Hospital at the turn of the 20th century.
Witness to History: Anderson R. Abbott, Civil War Surgeon
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.
Advancing cancer research in Africa: Harold Stewart and the National Cancer Institute
Circulating Now welcomes Mark Parascandola, PhD, to discuss his research in the Harold Leroy Stewart Papers at the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Parascandola
Louis W. Sullivan Papers Now Available for Research
The Louis W. Sullivan Papers document his tenure as Secretary of HHS from 1989-1993, his work at Morehouse School of Medicine, and his work on public and minority health programs and racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions.
Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy
By Erika Mills ~ Today’s artificial intelligence and computer science technologies can identify a person, infer one’s emotions and tendencies,