With its terrifying gorilla in a German military helmet reaching the shores of America, leaving a devastated Europe behind, this propaganda poster uses fear of the enemy as a military recruitment tool. Anti-German propaganda themes contributed to the…
After the war, the Federal Board for Vocational Education began funding the education of disabled veterans across the country. On the Hopkins campus, some veterans worked as “protégés,” a kind of paid apprenticeship where they received on-the-job…
In 2013, Dr. Wei-Ping Andrew Lee (front center) performed the first-ever bilateral arm transplant at Hopkins. The patient was Brendan Marrocco (on Lee’s left), a veteran of the Iraq War
Salvarsan, also known as 606, was a synthetic drug developed by the scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 to treat syphilis. It was a path-breaking development that revolutionized the American medical profession’s ability to treat the disease. When World…