Greetings, I am Kevin Bair, owner of history with kev.com, a Ph.D. (2023) historian, and board member of the Apalachicola Area Historical Society. I gave a presentation in beautiful Gulf and Mexico port town of Apalachicola, Florida, on May 2, 2022, at the David C....
Greetings, This video is about Kevin’s initial research on his dissertation topic; Hospital ships of The Western Sanitary Commission used during the Battle of Pittsburg Landing April 6-7, 1862. How effective were they when compared to battlefield medicine? Did...
Greetings, I and two other students made this Power Point on Vietnam Nurses as class project while I was earning my master at Johns Hopkins. I found the research to be both inspiring and heartbreaking. If you decide to scroll through the power point I recommend you...
The Tangled Web Of Early Civil War Medicine An Inept Lincoln Cabinet During The Battle of First Manassas, 1861 and The Peninsula Campaign, 1862: Unnecessary Deaths of Savable Men By Kevin M. Bair History Ph.D. Student Liberty University Fall 2020 HIUS 820 Introduction...
Greetings, This paper examines the claims that in 1851, Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola Florida was the first person to invent artificial refrigeration to make ice and cool rooms. Gorrie quested for climate control during the hot and humid Florida summers in order to...
This terse paper will examine the 1765, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, by John Adams. His essay is an argument against the March 22, 1765, Stamp Act, issued to the American colonies, by King George III and the British Parliament. By using a lens...
