Stephen J. Greenberg, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “The Frances Dupuy Fletcher Photo Album”
Category: The Great War
A series featuring NLM collections that illuminate the medical history of The Great War.
World War I Centenary Forum: Masking Devastation
Sarah Eilers will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “Masking Devastation: Inside Anna Ladd’s Paris Studio”
World War I Centenary Forum: Stories from the NLM Collections
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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.”