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Vietnam Magazine
Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany DVD produced by Creative Street Productions, 2006, $21.95, vietnamnursesdvd.com Dana Delany is not a Vietnam nurse, but she played one on TV. This award- winning documentary hosted by the China Beach star is...
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American History Magazine
Maternity is the young woman’s battlefield,” wrote Mary Breckinridge in 1927. “It is more dangerous, more painful, more mutilating than war, and as inexorable as all the laws of God.” Breckinridge’s theater of operations was...
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Information and Articles About Civil War Nurses, one of the many roles filled by women of the civil war Civil War Nurses summary: Thousands of women served as volunteer nurses during the Civil War. There is very little written record of...
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America's Civil War
A cadre of dedicated Northern women from all walks of life traveled to the charnel houses of the Civil War to care for the sick and wounded....
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American History Reviews, Reviews
ALL THIS HELL: U.S. NURSES IMPRISONED BY THE JAPANESE, by Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, The University Press of Kentucky, 264 pages, $22.50. THE sweeping success of the Japanese in the western Pacific following Pearl...
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By Claire Barrett
3/31/2020 •
HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
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American History Magazine
In August 1997, a scientist named Johan Hultin from San Francisco traveled to Brevig Mission and, with permission of the town’s elders, excavated the local cemetery to try and unearth a victim of the outbreak buried deep within the...
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Military History Quarterly
In this book Thomas S. Helling, a surgeon at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and veteran of the Army Medical Corps, looks at the hell of war through a special—and very specific—lens: the medical care provided to...
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Vietnam
The pain continued for many POWs even after they came home....
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Military History Magazine
Kevin Patrick Muncer flew nocturnal bombing missions in Avro Lancasters until a Junkers Ju-88G made him a German prisoner. Born in London and raised in Kent, Kevin Patrick Muncer was working as an analytical chemist when World War II broke...
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Civil War Times
A Norwegian immigrant wrote letters home in his native language and invisible ink...
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Civil War Times
Farm at crucial Gettysburg intersection was commandeered as 11th Corps hospital...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
In March 1942, soon after U.S. forces in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese, Chief Nurse Laura Mae Cobb of the Cañacao Naval Hospital in Manila Bay was sent with 11 other nurses to a civilian internment camp on the grounds of...
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American History Magazine
Eighty-one years ago, some of Alaska’s toughest mushers raced against time and the frozen wilderness along the Iditarod trails in a frantic attempt to save more than 1,400 men, women and children of Nome from the ravages of a diphtheria...
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MHQ Magazine
Bessie Beatty was born in Los Angeles in 1886 to Irish immigrants. While she was still a student at Occidental College, she landed a job with the Los Angeles Herald, and by 1907 she was a columnist for the San Francisco Bulletin. She also...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Philadelphia’s contribution to the Union war effort was as expansive and diverse as the city itself. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Philadelphia’s size and economic output placed it second only to New York in population and...
