The Black Bag: Foundations of Medicine

by Sandra Yates, Head of McGovern Historical Center We’ve have been posting to this site since March 2010, 14 years! From this point forward, we will be posting exclusively on our main website....

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/find-the-latest-news-on-our-website/

By Joy Oria, Archives Intern Almost two hundred items from the Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, MD papers have been digitized and are now available online. Dr. Desmond (1916-2003) contributed to the ...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/selections-from-the-papers-of-murdina-macfarquhar-desmond-md-digitized-and-online/

by Armin Weinberg, PhD, Guest Contributor I’ve had the pleasure of working with the staff at the McGovern Historical Center for several years. The opportunity to place articles, notes, correspo...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/25-years-later-we-still-care/

By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. The McGovern Historical Center invites you to #ColorOurCollections! This week the MHC joins other libraries, archives, and cultura...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/colorourcollections/

By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. The name “McGovern” is etched across major establishments and institutions all over the sprawling city of Houston, ranging from me...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/remembering-the-benevolent-benefactor-kathrine-g-mcgovern-a-quiet-force-in-houstons-transformation/

By Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. After processing the Lucille Baird papers, we noticed the handful of letters that had been saved weren’t just any old correspond...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/the-christmas-bonus/

By Johana Canales, Archives Intern. The University of Texas Dental Branch records arrived at the McGovern Historical Center in 2010. Sometime after those records were processed and made available...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/the-153-marmoset-and-the-mystery-of-the-handwritten-book-stories-from-an-addendum-to-the-ut-dental-branch-collection/

By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. Recently, the McGovern Historical Collection acquired several items that, as an archivist, I consider to be exciting acquisitions, as ...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/newly-digitized-vinyls/

By Tara Carron, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. Newly processed! The John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Science collection has been processed and a finding aid is available at htt...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/ic-079-john-p-mcgovern-museum-of-health-and-medical-science/

by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian. October is Archives Month! The celebration offers an occasion to raise awareness about archives, the work archivists do, and the a...

https://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/archives-month-and-texas-archival-resources-online/