The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and its partners in the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP) recently put their research to the test during a massive disaster drill. The drill, held last month, is known as the Collaborative Multi-Agency Exercise (CMAX). It takes place every year, but this year it was part of the…
Hundreds of years before television crime shows and Agatha Christie murder mysteries, people got their thrills from “true crime” tales told in murder pamphlets. A new National Library of Medicine Web site, “Most Horrible and Shocking Murders,” provides a unique look at these pamphlets, which have been a rich source for crime novelists, historians of…
When Susie King Taylor was a slave, she was secretly taught to read and write. It made a difference to her life, the lives of others, and to American history. After being freed, she became a Civil War nurse. She taught soldiers to read and write. She wrote her memoirs. Her book is the only…
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