Posts by DIFDESIGN
HMS Librarian Featured in History Podcast
HMS Librarian Jennifer Miglus is featured in the podcast, Grating the Nutmeg Episode 58: Keeping It Clean in World War I. In the 1910s, a group of Connecticut reformers formed a…
Read More‘Cleaning Up’ in the Early 20th Century
Take a look into the record of The Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene, a group formed in 1910 with the intent to combat venereal disease and promote healthy living through…
Read MorePoetry from the Civil War Hospital
The Knight U.S. Army General Hospital in New Haven was one of nine Civil War hospitals that wrote and published newspapers on-premises. Convalescent patients, soldiers, doctors, nurses, clerks, and chaplains…
Read MoreDiscovering Anesthesia
Can you imagine an operating room without anesthesia? Dive back into the middle of the 19th century when the field of anesthesia was just in its infancy. The HMS library…
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