The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing. Before the war, most nurses ...

Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. (Department of Defense) A 2024 DoD News article from writer Katie Lange told the story of 23 female nurses ...

Heather St. Clair of Loma Linda, a founding member of the Academy of Living History Performing Arts, will present “Mother” Mary Ann Bickerdyke when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table ...

Nancy Haas of the Avon Lake Historical Society spent over 40 years working as a nurse in hospitals around northern Ohio.Now, Haas is helping to spread the word of some of her earliest professional ...

Tea with Sarah Sampson, a reenactment of an historic interview with Bath’s legendary Civil War nurse, will be held from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St ...

Films such as “Saving Private Ryan” memorialize soldiers who gave their life during that War, yet there is no film about “Saving Nurse Ryan,” such as the one who worked at an overwhelmed ...