Katherine Carroll’s Building Schools, Making Doctors is a beautiful book detailing how medical school design contributed to the reform of American medical education during the late nineteenth and earl...

This position is based on the following rationale:The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education published by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing set expectations for...

History matters. Beyond George Santayana’s oft-repeated cliche that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” history—or more correctly, the stories we tell about our history—fr...

The Contagion of Liberty offers a fascinating examination of smallpox before and during the American Revolution, and in the early years of the American Republic with particular focus on the “liberty” ...