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Letters Shed Light on Huey Long’s Murder Mystery

September 11, 2018 Circulating Now

By Divyansh Agarwal ~ A seemingly typical Sunday evening in Louisiana, September 8, 1935, was about to become extraordinary. The House of Representatives had organized

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Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved

August 2, 2018 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington

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A Rapid Means of Casualty Evacuation, 1961

June 14, 2018 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Sanders Marble, PhD. Dr. Marble is Senior Historian in the U.S. Army Office of Medical History and a 2018 NLM

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Mercy Street’s Mansion House Hospital

January 19, 2017 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg Mercy Street, the popular PBS series now entering its second season, tells the complicated story of a U.S. Army hospital during

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When Time is Crucial—The Origin of EMS

May 21, 2015 Circulating Now

By Susan Speaker May 17-23 is EMS Week—and you know what that means! Or maybe you don’t. If you’ve never had your life or that

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The Lincoln Autopsy

April 16, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jill L. Newmark and Roxanne Beatty This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

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A Day that Changed American History

April 14, 2015

By Roxanne Beatty and Jill L. Newmark This week, Circulating Now marks a pivotal event in American history with a short series of posts. 150

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Winter Wounds, Paper Dressing

February 24, 2015 alinelink

By Sarah Eilers ~ It’s a black and white film, but it’s the white that overwhelms. A carpet of snow beneath Nordic pines, white uniforms

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