The National Library of Medicine launched a a new effort to archive web resources on the topic of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Health for future historical research.
Juneteenth: History and Healing
On June 19, 1866, the first Juneteenth commemoration was held at Emancipation Park, on land in Houston that had been purchased by newly free African Americans, but freedom did not convey equality.
Ghāyat al-Bayān: A Master Storyteller of Medical Knowledge Transmission
By Ayman Yasin Atat ~ During my recent visit to the National Library of Medicine (NLM), I had the privilege
Dr. Margaret Craighill: First Woman Commissioned Officer in the Army
In the course of her long and distinguished medical career, Margaret D. Craighill served as dean of the Woman’s Medical
“St. John’s Court Is No More”: Code Enforcement and The Baltimore Plan for Housing
By Daniel G. Cumming ~ It was an unusual commute. In the late 1930s, Dr. Huntington Williams, commissioner of the
Mission and Mandate: Navigating the History of Science Administration at the NIH
By Todd M. Olszewski ~ As a historian, I study the intersections among clinical medicine, health research, and health policy.
Race, Pseudoscience, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
By Erika Mills and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) tells the unsettling
Stanley Stein and The Star
Circulating Now welcomes guest author Elizabeth Schexnyder, curator of the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville, Louisiana, to share the
Preservation at the National Library of Medicine
Preserving a collection of material objects that represents the knowledge of many individuals and creates meaning for diverse communities is
Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Cataloging
A new online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th century pamphlets acquired early