By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek Island Military Hospital as a
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The Young at Heart
By Ginny A. Roth ~ A gallery of WWI era postcards from the Zwerdling Postcard Collection.
World War I Centenary Forum: A Call to Service
Ginny A. Roth, will speak at 2 PM ET today, April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “A Call to Service: Women Represented
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 Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations
By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library
Nurses—The Heart of Healing
By Ginny A. Roth Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a