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…
Category: African American History
Shutting the Digital Back Door
An interview with Kim Gallon, PhD, MS, MLIS, on her NLM History Talk and her work in digital humanities and Africana Studies. Continue reading Source: NLM
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
An interview with Kylie M. Smith PhD on her NLM History Talk and her work on racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals. Continue reading Source: NLM
The Measure of Black (Un)Fitness: Legacies of Slavery in the Early Eugenics Movement
An interview with Rana A. Hogarth, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on legacies of slavery in the early eugenics movement. Continue reading Source: NLM
Patient Pamphlet for Piedmont TB Sanatorium, VA, 1940
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on the Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Continue reading Source: NLM
Inez Holmes, Nurse and Veteran
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Kiana Wilkerson, Katherine Randall, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to share their research on World War II veteran and Continue reading Source: NLM
Remembering Dr. Andrew C. Jackson and the Tulsa Race Massacre
June 1, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Dr. Jackson, a prominent Black physician, was murdered during the massacre. Continue reading Source: NLM
What It Means to Talk about Race and African American Health
An interview with Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Rutgers University, on her NLM History Talk. Continue reading Source: NLM
Leonidas Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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 Continue reading Source: NLM
NLM Exhibitions and Epidemics
By Patricia Tuohy~ I am not an historian of medicine. However, many of the historians of medicine with whom I’ve worked have wryly talked about Continue reading Source: NLM
VD at the Movies: Public Health Service World War II Venereal Disease Films
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger John Parascandola, PhD from the University of Maryland to explore the use of film in public health campaigns against venereal Continue reading Source: NLM
Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America
An interview with the curator of the newest exhibition at NLM, which explores how Philadelphia’s anxious residents responded to the epidemic using an uneasy blend of science and politics. Continue reading Source:…
Inventor & Mentor: Dr. Leonidas H. Berry and the Gastroscope
The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript Continue reading Source: NLM
Ephemera in the Dr. Leonidas H. Berry Collection
The National Library of Medicine announces new public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982 manuscript Continue reading Source: NLM
Leonidas H. Berry and the Fight to Desegregate Medicine
The National Library of Medicine provides public access to more than 1,600 materials selected and digitized from the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1907–1982. Continue reading Source: NLM
Making Exhibition Connections: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present Continue reading Source: NLM
Sitting by the Fireside: African American History, Women’s History, and Food
Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America recognizes the ways in which meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes. Continue…
Behind the Scenes on Mercy Street
Circulating Now readers recently learned about a unique register of patients from Mansion House Hospital dating from the 1860s and 1870s, which NLM holds in Continue reading Source: NLM
Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
Psyche Williams-Forson, PhD, will speak at 2 PM on November 3 at the National Library of Medicine on “Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Continue reading Source: NLM
Power to the People: Washington Gives Back
By Jennifer Brier, Anne Armstrong, Julie Kutruff, Erin Carlson Mast, Patricia Tuohy Creative individuals and institutions in Washington DC have moved beyond what often comes Continue reading Source: NLM