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Explore the History of Hearing Aids through a New Digital Exhibit!

By Sarah Bush — December 4, 2025

“How Did We Get Hear? Historic Hearing Devices 1800-2000” is a new digital exhibit from the Becker Archives that explores the long history of hearing devices, from mechanical conversation tubes to electronic transistor hearing aids. The exhibit features nearly 100 different hearing devices from Becker Archives’ Central Institute for the Deaf–Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices [Read more]

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Index of Ten Thousand 19th and 20th Century Scientific Articles on Ear, Nose, and Throat Medicine Now Available

By Sarah Bush — October 23, 2025

The Becker Archives is pleased to announce that an index of the Max A. Goldstein Collection of Scientific Articles on Otorhinolaryngology is now available on the Becker Archives Database. This collection features more than ten thousand scientific articles on subjects related to the study and practice of ear, nose, and throat medicine. The articles were [Read more]

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The Paradox of the Paravox VERI-small, or How to Hide a Hearing Aid in Your Hair

By Sarah Bush — July 21, 2025

Today, hearing aids are small enough to sit behind your ear or slip in your ear canal, but they weren’t always so diminutive or discreet. If you used a hearing aid in the 1930s and 1940s, you wouldn’t just have a receiver in your ear—that receiver would be connected to two bulky units: one piece [Read more]

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Happy Valentine’s Day from Becker Archives!

By Sarah Bush — February 7, 2025

Send your science-loving sweetie a valentine from Becker Archives and Rare Books!

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Reproductive Rights: Highlights from Becker Archives and Rare Books

By Sarah Bush — November 22, 2024

Reproductive rights in America are constantly changing. But how did we get here? Historical context can help us understand our current moment and even possible futures. Becker Library has a variety of historic materials that shed light on the history of reproductive rights at WashU and in St. Louis.

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Dr. Katherine Bain, her friend Christine Glass, and their home at 2710 Quebec Street

By Sarah Bush — July 15, 2024

Using archival records to determine if a friendship between two women was something more is challenging. At first glance, the records are rather ambiguous, perhaps intentionally so. What can we learn if we look closer?

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Say I ? You with Valentines from the Becker Archives

By Sarah Bush — February 13, 2024

Is your sweetie into immunology? Does your heartthrob have a lab job? If so, send your beloved one of these valentines from the Becker Archives!

off white background with fist holding two Pabst beer bottles and words above saying "Pabst Extract"

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When Is Beer Not Beer? When You Say It’s Medicine

By Sarah Bush — December 4, 2023

You might expect a malt brew with as much as 5% ABV to be a beer, but in the late nineteenth century Pabst apparently liked to think outside the keg.

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In His Own Words: Julian Mosley, MD on supporting and advocating for Black Students at WUSM

By Sarah Bush — July 10, 2023

“I came here with kind of the idea of opening up doors and trying to get the school involved in doing things for minorities” – Julian Mosley, MD, 1990 As a student at Washington University School of Medicine, Julian C. Mosley, Jr., MD, was instrumental in advocating for Black students. In the in the late [Read more]

Robert Lee, PhD, center, speaking with recently accepted medical students, 1988. Lee was the first associate dean for Minority Student Affairs at WUSM.

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Beyond “In Their Own Words”: Stories of Black Excellence and Resources on the Intersection of Race and Medicine

By Sarah Bush — March 20, 2023

Becker Library’s newest exhibit, “In Their Own Words: Stories of Desegregation at Washington University Medical Center,” highlights the experiences of Black people and their allies who faced institutional racism and fought for change. Learn more about the stories and topics presented in the exhibit with these resources.

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