Wednesday
May 4, 2011 4:32 PM
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Monday
March 14, 2011 4:27 PM
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Monday
February 28, 2011 3:11 AM
What is the human cost of the Civil War? 630,00? 650,000? 700,000? While we may never calculate the true casualty figures, it is important to understand that our current accounting is far short.
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Friday
February 25, 2011 4:36 PM
When Major Jonathan Letterman issued his orders to re-organize the medical department of the Army of the Potomac in 1862, little could he have known that 146 years later his ideology would become the basis of a management training program.
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Monday
February 7, 2011 2:55 PM
How many times have we heard this!?! A simple search on the Internet will confirm that most people really don't understand what Civil War medicine was all about.
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Wednesday
February 2, 2011 4:22 PM
We are now beginning the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. There are many commemorations already planned and some have already taken place. Over the coming months we will see these activities increase in both scope and number. The question we must always keep in mind is: Why?
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Wednesday
November 24, 2010 8:26 PM
The Museum has been going through a number of changes in recent times. We have updated several galleries, developed a new website, begun new leadership training programs and much more. These are all quite significant but there is one event that truly stands above the rest.
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Wednesday
August 18, 2010 6:28 PM
In my last post I copied an editorial that I wrote for the Frederick News Post. I was recently asked what specific lessons we could learn from history and how they might apply in the current relief efforts in Haiti. A recent news story answers that question in marvelous way.
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Tuesday
August 17, 2010 7:22 PM
The following letter has been sent to a number of media outlets. It is the mission of the Museum and the Letterman Institute to improve the future by learning from the past. Unfortunately history can not be used for positive change when the media continues to reiterate false, negative stereotypes regarding that history. Here is our editorial about this important issue.
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Friday
January 29, 2010 9:45 PM
This week has been a great time for recharging my batteries. On Thursday I was honored to join with a group of leaders from Frederick Maryland who are all alumni of the Leadership Frederick program sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. These dedicated people participated in a year-long program an are now dedicating themselves to further development by joining the alumni group and participating in ongoing community service and personal leadership development.
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Sunday
January 24, 2010 9:14 PM
I was struck the other night be a comment from a relief agency representative in Haiti. The spokesman stated that they were hindered in doing their job due to a lack of office space and telephone service. She also seemed to lament at the need for living in tents and having to meet “under a tree”. I can not imagine the hardships there and I am not trying to cast any doubt as to the dedication and resolve of the brave men and women working against all odds to relieve the sufferings of countless people. My heart and prayers go out to all of them.
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Tuesday
January 19, 2010 11:55 AM
I have used this exercise many times. Try it yourself and leave your answer in the comment section.
Think of a great person that you admire and that exemplifies some leadership quality for you. After you think of this person think of the leadership quality that most strikes you about that person.
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Sunday
January 17, 2010 8:12 PM
First I want to thank Niki for filling in for me while I was away. As you can likely tell from her post, she is an enthusiastic and active member of our Museum family. Her post is also a great place to start the comments for this week as it highlights some vital qualities of a great organizational model.
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Tuesday
January 12, 2010 4:02 PM
eorge is on a train somewhere in the northeast heading to or from an awesome historical research project that EVERYONE will hear about eventually but not today. So I thought that I’d blog in his place. My name is Niki Thrash and I am the Director of Institutional Advancement for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. I’ve been working for the Museum for about a year and a half and I have to tell you that this experience has been life changing. I don’t believe that I ever realized that history could have a very real impact on real issues in real time. I used to consider history as a slice of time, isolated and unique and I thought that a museum was a snap shot of a given aspect of that slice of time. I had always seen Museums as repositories…a building that would hold stuff for people to look at and remember a time gone by. I just didn’t get it. Then I started working for George.
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Sunday
January 3, 2010 8:33 PM
I think I should start at the beginning. For me the words “Be Prepared” are at the very core of my understanding of leadership. Many of you will know that these words were penned by Lord Robert Baden-Powell the founder of the Boy Scouts and named Chief Scout of the World in 1920 at the first World Jamboree. These words still stand as the very core of scouting ideals. When I think of leadership I think: “BE PREPARED!”
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