Stories
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
Catalogue
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American Civil War: the free and slave states, and of the unsettled territory. Wood engraving, 1856.
Date: [1856]Reference: 37933i- Books
Learning from the wounded : the Civil War and the rise of American medical science / Shauna Devine.
Devine, ShaunaDate: [2014]- Pictures
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American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
Skill, Frederick John, 1824-1881.Date: 1861Reference: 20133i- Archives and manuscripts
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Two accounts of surgery in the American Civil War
Date: 1915-1978Reference: RAMC/1419Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
American fertility patterns since the Civil War / Peter H. Lindert.
Lindert, Peter HDate: 1977