The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
Biographical sketches of mainly early Washington, D.C. area physicians.
Publications
"Samuel Clagett Busey," "Charles R. Drew," "George Martin Kober," "George Lloyd Magruder," "Frederick May," "Thomas Miller," "Mary Almera Parsons," "Robert Reyburn," and "George Tully Vaughan."
Dictionary of American Medical Biography, edited by Martin Kaufman, et al., 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
"Public Health Service."
in Government Agencies, edited by Donald R. Whitnah , 450–458. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
A short history of the U.S. Public Health Service.
“Biologics Control Act of 1902.”
in The Early Years of Federal Food and Drug Control, edited by Glenn Sonnedecker, 8–27. Madison, Wisc.: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1982.
A history of the first federal law regulating the interstate and foreign sale of a specific class of drugs in the United States. Illustrations of objects and trade literature in the NMAH collections.
The Internet as Tool for the Social Construction of Knowledge
Farquhar, John, Carrie Kotcho, and Brendan McGinty. The Internet as a Tool for the Social Construction of Knowledge. Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1996 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. 18th, Indianapolis, IN: 1996.
An early exploration of how Internet technologies might be used to promote learning through socially-mediated interactions. Identifies potential use of the Web for social networking and learning as well as naming bandwidth as a major factor in the quality of interactions.
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"Exploring Virtual History at the National Museum of American History,"
2002, International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia.
Who’s in Charge: Constructed Realities,
et al, SITES, Washington, D.C. 1992.
Cutting Tool Engineering, "History of Tools" series:
"1989-1991: The Development of high-speed Steel", June, 1989; "Bicycle Wheels and Grinding Wheels", August, 1989; "The World’s Most Elegant Lathe", October, 1989; "Evolution of Drilling", February, 1990 ; "Threading Through History", August, 1990; "“The Milling-Machine Revolution", October, 1990; "“Hand Files", February 1991; "Gaging Change", March, 1991.
“J. B. Colt at Chautauqua,”
Rittenhouse, vol 2, no 2, February 1988.
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820–Present,"
with Harry Rubenstein. George Mason University Web Site. July 1998.
"M. Susan Barger and William White, The Daguerreotype Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science and John Wood (edited by), America and the Daguerreotype. Book Review,"
Technology and Culture, vol 34, no 2, April 1993.
"Bringing Sweatshops into the Museum,"
with Harry Rubenstein. In Sweatshops USA, Richard Greenwald and Daniel Bender, eds., Taylor and Francis Books, Inc., New York, 2003
"Lorraine Giordano, Beyond Taylorism, Book Review,"
Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1994, pp. 90–91.
"Industrial Photographs,"
in At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian, Merry Foresta ed., Smithsonian Press, summer 2003.
"Albert Kingsbury,"
American National Biography, John Garraty, ed.
“Hillotypes: A Sad Tale of Invention,”
Photographic History, Spring 2000, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 52.
"The Working People of Richmond: Life and Labor in an Industrial City, 1865–1920, Valentine Museum, exhibition review,"
Technology and Culture, vol 33, no 3, July 1992, pp. 564–570.
"Experiences from the Front Line: Presenting a Controversial Exhibition during the Culture Wars,"
Public Historian, Vol. 22 No. 3, summer 2000, p. 67–86.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820– Present,
with Harry Rubenstein. UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, Calif., 1999.
"What Do We Keep?"
with Steven Lubar. Invention and Technology, Spring 1999, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 28–38.
"Washington City Museum,"
Public Historian, Fall 2004.
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place,"
with Harry Rubenstein. Labor's Heritage, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring 1998, pp. 4–25.
"Seeking 'The One Best Way': Frank and Lillian Gilbreth's Time-Motion Photographs 1910–1924,"
Labor’s Heritage, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 1995, pp 30–61.
"Elizabeth Brayer, George Eastman: A Biography. Book Review,"
Technology and Culture, October, 1998, vol. 39, no. , pp. 784–785.
"Communicating Business: Corporate Agendas Through Photographs,"
Antenna, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 4–5.
"Presenting History: Democracy on Display,"
Exhibitionist, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 1995, pp. 18–21.