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15 of the Best Books and Articles on: Nurses in Wartime

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They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II » Read Now
by Kathi Jackson. 220 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could...
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A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible. Although military nurses could have made more money as civilians, thousands chose to leave the warmth and security of home to care for the young men who went off to war. They were not saints but vibrant women whose performance changed the face of both military and civilian nursing. Jackson's account follows both army and navy nurses from the time they joined the military, through their active service, to their lives today.
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Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam » Read Now
by Elizabeth M. Norman. 214 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...priority. But in Vietnam the nurses learned to...skills to wartime demands...Like most nurses in the study...volunteered for wartime duty for patriotic...Rewards of...
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New Light on the Lady with the Lamp: Susan-Mary Grant Looks at Florence Nightingale's Influence on Medical Care in the Crimea and the US Civil War, in History Today » Read Now
by Susan-Mary Grant. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...no dressers or nurses to carry out the...with inspiring, in part at least...the wounded in wartime. `Through her...superintendent of female nurses by the Union in June of...
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Women Nurses in the Spanish-American War, in Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military » Read Now
by Mercedes H. Graf. 24 pgs.

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...conservative citizens and Army surgeons still objected to using them during wartime. Nevertheless, these women would not be thwarted any more than their sister nurses had...
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Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War (Chap. 5 "They Also Served: Women and Children") » Read Now
by Robert B. Edgerton. 283 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair. Death or Glory is a narrative immersion into conditions during what became arguably the most tragically...
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War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy » Read Now
by William B. Breuer. 258 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Allowing women to serve in the military during wartime has been a subject of controversy since World War I, when, for the first time in history, thousands of American women volunteered, answering the same patriotic call to duty as the men. Unlike the men, however, these pioneers were targets of...
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Allowing women to serve in the military during wartime has been a subject of controversy since World War I, when, for the first time in history, thousands of American women volunteered, answering the same patriotic call to duty as the men. Unlike the men, however, these pioneers were targets of gossip and branded as "camp followers" by some. Since that time, some 3.5 million American women have served their country as spies, nurses, guerrillas, or war correspondents. Many of these volunteers were wounded or died in the line of duty, others suffered as prisoners of war - all with little or no recognition. War and American Women brings to life the compelling stories of the ordinary and extraordinary women who served their country in times of war.
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Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865 » Read Now
by Cornelia Hancock, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette. 173 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America". From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the...
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Angel of Light: Helen L. Gilson, Army Nurse, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Edward A. Miller Jr. 21 pgs.

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...female, as cooks or nurses," at ten dollars...known as the best in that department...other maladies of wartime service from which...August 3, 1861, nurses in permanent or...
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Serving My Country, in Negro History Bulletin » Read Now
by Prudence Burns Burrell. 4 pgs.

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...Red Cross to recruit black nurses for the Army Nurse Corps. In 1941, prior to the Japanese...activated at Fort Huachuca in July 1943. Fifteen nurses were selected for duty...
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Seldom Thanked, Never Praised, and Scarcely Recognized: Gender and Racism in Civil War Hospitals, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Jane E. Schultz. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...have tended sick white nurses Louisa May Alcott and...mentions her by name in letter, diary, or wartime narrative--a practice...African-American Childhood in Wartime," in...
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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience (1867) » Read Now
by L. P. Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan. 800 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Taylor reinstated as teacher-- She nurses the soldiers in the hospitals, during her vacations...Association" formed in New York--Nurses in great numbers sent on after...
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Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice (1866) » Read Now
by Frank Moore. 588 pgs.

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...Cross." -- Bringing in the Wounded...513 - 518 The Nurses at Chattanooga...the doctors and nurses told her no other...ever before called. In about a month Mrs...surgeons...
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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Part III "Women at War") » Read Now
by Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber. 426 pgs.

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...the home front and in military hospitals...dramatized the important wartime functions of women...necessarily hardened, but in the process they...The constraints of wartime...
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Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross » Read Now
by John F. Hutchinson. 456 pgs.

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The author of this polemical account of the Red Cross movement argues that the militaristic tendency has taken advantage of the Red Cross and that a spin off of this is the promotion of war by Red Cross itself!
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The American Red Cross in the Great War (1919) » Read Now
by Henry P. Davison. 308 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...insures the arrival of bandages and nurses in a plague-stricken East and the temperature...investi gation what surgeons and nurses in army hospitals wanted in the...