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Leonidas Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church

May 21, 2020 Circulating Now

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

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Remembering the Saints of the Plague

November 1, 2019 Circulating Now

By Laura Hartman ~ Today, as many Western Christian churches celebrate All Saints’ Day, it seems fitting to remember the saints in the historical collections

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A “Commentary” on Lambertus on Aquinas on Aristotle

September 5, 2019 Circulating Now

By Walton O. Schalick ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Jorge of Burgos, the scholar-villain of Umberto Eco’s The

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NLM Manuscripts on Loan to Romance and Reason

March 22, 2018 Circulating Now

Dr. Roberta Casagrande-Kim is research associate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and assistant manager of exhibitions and publications at the

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Art on the Edge

March 22, 2017 Circulating Now

By Ken Koyle, Ginny Roth, and Krista Stracka Hedley Vicars was not a war hero. He was not a renowned strategist or tactician; his presence

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