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In an effort to halt the progress of venereal disease in the army, Young and others tried to implement various preventative measures. One was education. Progressives, at the time, would have preferred that American men abstain from the “vice” of…

As men left civilian and military clerical jobs for overseas duty, demand for women to fill these positions increased. Women worked as stenographers for the government and the armed forces. In this poster, Washington’s need for more stenographers is…

A group of Student Army Training Corps cadets gathered in their barracks, a converted Johns Hopkins University classroom.

The Student Army Training Corps program was short lived on the Hopkins campus. Students had been on campus for less than two months when the War Department issued this memo calling for commanding officers to discharge all students in the program.

This memo shows the university’s commitment to accept 708 SATC students on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses.

Students at rest in their barracks, a converted classroom in a Johns Hopkins University building.

Alice Fitzgerald started the International School for Public Health Nurses for the Florence Nightingale International Foundation in London. Katherine Olmsted continued the work by organizing the second course at Bedford College at the University of…

Propaganda aimed at American audiences came from both sides of the conflict. In The British Black Book, the author assigns blame for the global conflict to England, depicted here as a giant octopus destroying other nations. This item can be found in…

The Red Cross sent a medical relief ship with 170 doctors and nurses near the outbreak of the war in 1914 to provide assistance to the wounded on both sides of the conflict. Hopkins doctors and nurses served on the Mercy Ship expedition. With the US…