By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Anne Rothfeld One hundred years ago, on April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson spoke to the US Congress requesting Continue reading Source: NLM
Category: The Great War
A Nurse’s Scrapbook from The Great War
By Stephen J. Greenberg Anniversaries can be funny things. As we observe (“celebrate” somehow seems wrong in the context) the 100th anniversary of the First Continue reading Source: NLM
The Punitive Expedition, 1916
By Stephen J. Greenberg The political situation in Mexico, always a matter of great concern to the United States, was particularly volatile in late 1915 Continue reading Source: NLM
“What a mess! And we are not half through”: Dr. Osler on England’s home front in World War I
By Susan Speaker This is one of a series of occasional posts highlighting collections that document medical activities during the Great War, which lasted from Continue reading Source: NLM
Publications and the Army Medical Library around World War I
Dr. Sanders Marble spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Gathering and Spreading Knowledge: Publications and the Army Medical Library around World War Continue reading Source: NLM
AFS and American Volunteerism in World War I
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Nicole J. Milano, Head Archivist and Historical Publications Editor at the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Continue reading Source: NLM
Travels of a World War I Nurse
By Dan Caughey Photograph postcards, known as “real photo” postcards, were popular mementos to send to loved ones before and during World War I. There Continue reading Source: NLM
Christmas in Wartime: a formal dinner in cap and apron
December 27, 1914: “Yesterday—Boxing Day—there was a Christmas dinner in the evening for the whole nursing staff in the marble hall—seventy-one of us.” Continue reading Source: NLM
Christmas in Wartime: You should have heard the shouts
By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with Continue reading Source: NLM
Christmas in Wartime: gauze stockings for 200 men
By Jeffrey S. Reznick One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer with Continue reading Source: NLM
Christmas in Wartime: Mary Dexter and the Great War
By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ One-hundred years ago this week, Mary Dexter wrote to her mother, Emily Loud Sanford, about her experiences as a volunteer Continue reading Source: NLM
Thanksgiving DeLuxe, 1918
The holiday season often brought out the very best in the spirit and practice of WWI military hospital magazines…”Many were heard to remark: “Well, after this I can safely say I’ve eaten…
The Sacred Work: Galsworthy’s Advocacy for WWI Veterans
By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This Veterans Day is the first to occur during the four-year centenary anniversary of World War I. As media outlets Continue reading Source: NLM
Plastic Reconstruction of the Face, 1918
One hundred years ago, in August 1914, the powers of Europe embarked upon a calamitous war which resulted in the death, mutilation, and suffering of Continue reading Source: NLM
(Re)Discovering The Great War
By Simon Chaplin and Jeffrey S. Reznick Commemorations of the centenary anniversary of World War I have begun in countries around the world. For the Continue reading Source: NLM
Honoring the Red Cross
By Ginny A. Roth This World War I-era poster created by artist John Mills depicts a Red Cross nurse helping a wounded soldier on the Continue reading Source: NLM
The Eleventh Hour
By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ When the United States entered the “Great War” in April of 1917, doctors and nurses were among the first volunteers Continue reading Source: NLM