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Tag: African American History
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
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.
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
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
A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System
Listen to Louis W. Sullivan, MD, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1989–1993, speak on “A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System.”
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
The Medical Civil Rights Movement and Access to Health Care
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Beatrix Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s most recent exhibition,
For All the People
Dr. Beatrix Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s newest exhibition, For All the People: A Century of
Medical Identity and Ethnicity in 19th-Century New Orleans
Dr. Amy Wiese Forbes spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Medical Identity and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.” Dr. Forbes is Associate