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Primary Sources and the Digital Generation: Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and artist who identified and named thousands…
Erinn AspinallAugust 24, 2015
Primary Sources and the Digital Generation: Alexander Von Humboldt
Alexander Von Humboldt, a German world traveler in the 19th century, was one of the…
Erinn AspinallAugust 17, 2015
Primary Sources and the Digital Generation: Erasmus Darwin
Teaching today’s undergraduate students can be a challenge because of the distractions of “buzzing phones…
Erinn AspinallAugust 4, 2015
Wangensteen Historical Library Celebrates Bastille Day
At the University of Minnesota's Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, we decided to…
Erinn AspinallJuly 14, 2015
Tracing the development of modern anatomy
University Honors Student, Rachael Howard, has created a timeline that traces the development of modern…
Erinn AspinallMarch 18, 2015
Students learn through lessons from the past
History of Medicine Professor Dominique Tobbell has learned the value of the Wangensteen collection firsthand.…
Mark EngebretsonMay 2, 2013