Nursing History

 The Biography of Clara Barton (1821-1912) Prior to founding the Red Cross, she tended to countless wounded soldiers on Civil War battlefields. 

Black Nurses in History UMDNJ and Coriell Research Library

Civil War Nurses  Civil War Medicine

Army Women's Museum Partners in History

Victorian Nurses in the Boer War Also WWI. Includes photos and post cards

History of Frontier Nursing Service U.S.Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places

Oral Histories of the Pearl Harbor Attack Excerpt from Oral History of LT Ruth Erickson, NC (Nurse Corps), USN

Women's Role in the War Market Harborough An East Midlands Town in the First World War

Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from St. Lawrence County  American Association of University Women

Nursing Old Wounds  Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first black nurse in the Regular Nurse Corps in 1942

United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing Includes PDF files of historical nursing journals.

Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry University of Virginia

Brave Women of the South Pacific 

Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World    Paper by Valerie French

Wilcox College of Nursing University of Connecticut's Archives and Special Collections

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project  Department of History New York University

Josephine A. Dolan Collection  Prepared by Laima Karosas

A Primer on Nursing History  American Association for the History of Nursing

Velazquez, Loreta Janeta - The Woman in Battle  University of North Carolina, Chapel hill Libraries

Men in American Nursing History  American Assembly for Men in Nursing

Historical Information (Hospital ships)  Hospital Ship International(H.S.I.)

Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses The first nurses were offered a three-month probationary appointment with-out salary.

An 1895 Look At Nursing
Images from the History of Medicine  National Library of Medicine

Clara Barton Homestead -- NRHP Travel Itinerary  Places Where women made History

Violet Constance Jessop, a WWI nurse with the British Red Cross survived the sinkings of all 3 ships: the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic

The Daughters of Charity at the Battle of Gettysburg KSU RN's Historical Nursing Website

Center for The Study of The History of Nursing University of Pennsylvania

 Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton  Notable Women Ancestors

Exhibitions in the History of Medicine U.S. National Library of Medicine

Lives and Deaths of an Ethiopian Midwife 1997 The Washington Post article

The History of Midwifery Parkland School of Nurse Midwifery

NLRB report on nursing union  activity   PDF format

Women in the U.S. Navy  Department of the Navy

NZ Nurses History  Early 1900's lists for genealogists

The NURHIS-L Listserv  Electronic discussion list for Nursing History

Women are veterans too!  By Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Retired)

Female Medical Education An 1850 debate in Garrison's Liberator, examining women's role in medicine, midwifery, and the larger society

Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins Nurse, Confederate States of America.  Known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South"

Archives of Nursing Leadership  Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Confederate Hospitals 

Civil War, Lynchburg, Virginia

Martha Ballard 1735-1812, Diaries of a midwife

Tribute to Florence Nightingale  Country Joe McDonald

Women in the Revolutionary Era  a "Short History"

National League for Nursing History 

First Lieutenant Sharon A. Lane  The only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire in Vietnam 

The Chronicle  Quarterly newsletter of the University of Michigan's Historical Center for the Health Sciences

Mental Health and Drug Abuse Images from the History of Public Health Service Home Page

Clara Barton - The House  National Park Service Clara Barton National Historic Site

Mabel Keaton Staupers,  Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyk Women in the workplace - Medicine

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links  Duke University

Frontier Nursing Service the midwifery service founded by Mary Breckinridge in 1925

Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) Bio and links

Army Nurse Corps History  History in Pictures Created by the ANC Historian

Dorothea Dix Civil War Diary

Post WWII and Korea  Women Were There!!

Ethel Bedford Fenwick (1857 - 1947)In 1899 she was instumental in setting up the International Council of Nurses

Nursing pioneer shares experiences with tomorrow's caregivers Senior students were easily identified by the black velveteen band edging their nursing caps

My Beloved Poilus Letters from France from 1914 written by a Canadian nurse

From the Decline/Dark Ages to Rebirth/Renaissance of Nursing Auburey and Holly Sundstrom

NurseWeek: A nod to tradition Examples of nursing uniforms, caps, tools, charts, furniture, mementos and books

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910  British Unitarian, nurse (founded nursing as a modern profession), mathematician

Nurse Pember and the Whiskey War  Civil War Times

Florence Nightingale Museum Trust  St. Thomas' Hospital, UK

Exhibit pays tribute to history of nursing  By Jack Hicks, Post staff reporter. "Working conditions for nurses in the 1800s weren't easy."

Black death Nurses in Australia's only Pneumonic Plague Outbreak - 1905

Hall of Fame Inductees  ANA

Brownson's Nursing Notes

Florence Nightingale:
Rural Hygiene Selected Writings of Florence Nightingale

Journal of a Confederate Nurse by Kate Cumming, "The Confederate Rose"

On Surgery's Cutting Edge In Civil War Medical 'Turning Point' Is Focus of New Museum

Nurses at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 48 American Homeopathy in the World War

Confederate Medical Personnel Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration

NurseWeek: A nod to tradition Examples of nursing uniforms,
caps, tools, charts, furniture, mementos and books

Civil War and 19th Century Medical Terminology 

Virginia's Confederate Military Hospitals

Angels and Orderlies An alphabetical list of nurses sent to military hospitals in the east

American Women Veterans Important Dates in the History of Women in the Military

Pflegegeschichte Online German journal of nursing history

History of Public Health Nursing
Service which began in the late 1800's 

 "A Lady-A Nurse or Hospital Matron." Photo from Confederate cemetery

Kate Cumming's Notes on Campaign Style Camping Book review excerpt

Kate Cumming Nurses The Wounded After  Chickamauga 1863

Life in Rome, Georgia During the War (1861-1865) From Kate Cumming's journal

Sojourner Truth, (1797?-1883), Born into slavery. Better know for her abolitionist and sufferage accomplishments 

Regulations for the Medical Department of the Military Forces of South Carolina 1861 electronic edition

Incident in Troy, New York 1860, Harriet Tubman

 Harriet Tubman 821-1913 Short biography

Septima Maria Levy Collis, A WOMAN'S WAR RECORD, 1861 - 1865. documenting the American South

ZWERDLING NURSING ARCHIVES  Specializing in all healthcare-related subjects depicted on picture postcards.

Harriet Tubman Biographical article published in 1863 about "the Moses of her people".

Methodist Adventures in Negro Education1922 black nurses training

AllcottWeb.com Louisa May Alcott, author and civil war nurse

Louisa May Alcott, biography provided by Camden County Free Library

Mary Seacole  Internurse

Women in the Korean Conflict

U.S. Sanitary Commission Information about the Commission's role in the Civil War.

Civil War & Spanish American War A nurse's salary? $12 per month plus one daily ration

Hearts at Home Mrs. Juliet Opie Hopkins was called the Florence Nightingale of the South

Lincoln and the Nuns - Civil War Medicine Abraham Lincoln's appreciation of  nuns' contribution 

Accomplished Women Buried at Arlington Cemetery Includes RNs 

An American Nurse At War Video documentary

Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives Hospital history, nursing school history, flu epidemic

Canadian Women in the Great War Partial list of nurses with the Canadian Expeditionary Force

In-Country Women Poetry dedicated to nurses who died in Vietnam

Women in the Army - a Proud history Revolutionary War through Desert Strom

First male nominated to lead Army Nurse Corps Col. William T. Bester, Feb., 2001

Brief History of Black Women In The Military Black nurses have served since the Civil War

WWI - Thirty Thousand Women Were There 3 RNs were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross