How the Microphone Changed Music
Just as the development of e-mail in the 1990s changed the love letter, the technology of the 1920s forever altered the love song. In the late nineteenth and early […]
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Dr. Alice Hamilton and Industrial Toxicology
Worker safety in factories and industrial plants became an issue in the late 19th century when more workers left their farms for jobs in cities. Alice Hamilton, a young woman
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Carlos Finlay: Cuban Physician Who Identified Carrier of Yellow Fever
The method by which yellow fever spread was proposed by Dr. Carlos Finlay (1833-1915), a Cuban physician. It took twenty more years for the Reed Board (Army Surgeon Walter Reed)
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Japanese Hero Stands Up for U.S. Citizens During World War II
The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 forever changed the lives of Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast. Within days, they were ordered to register with
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Midwife in Georgia Improved Birth Rates for Black Women
Safe childbirth for Black women in the early 20th century was possible but not guaranteed. Hospitals that accepted Black patients were rare, and any doctors who might help were often
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Jackie Robinson: Barred from Flying to First Spring Training
Jackie Robinson was the first Black major league baseball player, but he was almost prevented from getting to his first spring training in 1946. In 1945, Branch Rickey, general
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