A New Era in the Fight for Racial Equality in Nursing

In the mid-twentieth century, Philadelphia’s Mercy-Douglass Hospital School of Nursing was one of the only few Black-controlled nursing programs in the US. Hafeeza Anchrum traces the school's rise and fall to show how Black women struggled for both integration and the preservation of their own institutions of learning.

Race Against the Robots: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in Postwar America

Salem Elzway brings together labor history, political economy, and Science and Technology Studies to examine the history of automation in postwar America. His research traces how political and economic institutions shaped the development and use of industrial robots, from their place in labor-management relations to their role in the production and reproduction of racial difference. Drawing on extensive archival research, he connects the history of robotics to the military-industrial-academic complex, the early development of artificial intelligence, and debates over unemployment and inequality.

Flexible Genetics: The Birth of Clinical Medical Genetics through the Lens of Connective Tissue Disorders, 1940-2000

Caroline Wechsler uses Consortium collections to trace the evolution of clinical medical genetics in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on Marfan syndrome and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). Through archival research, she examines the development of medical genetics as a clinical specialty and explores how its changing boundaries shape contemporary questions of diagnosis, clinical responsibility, and patient care.