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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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Civil War Times
Early on a Friday evening in Nashville, I stand in the bullseye of history on the corner of 5th Avenue and Church Street. Two blocks south stands the Ryman Auditorium, once home of the Grand Ole Opry. A short distance north, 124 black...
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Aviation History, Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories
The first low-level B-29 raid on Tokyo introduced a terrifying new tactic in the war against Japan...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Imagine surviving monsoons, dengue fever, dysentery, malaria, and leeches in a bamboo hut in Assam, India during World War II. Imagine deploying to Inchon during the Korean War. Imagine leading the emergency room at Walter Reed Army...
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America's Civil War
The effects of imprisonment on the senses scarred prisoners for the rest of their lives...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Clara Maass paid the ultimate sacrifice in the search for curing yellow fever...
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Vietnam
This iconic aircraft carried some of the heaviest loads during the Vietnam War...
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America's Civil War
A feisty Southern chaplain takes on 'Little Phil,' a fellow Catholic, to escape from Yankee captivity...
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American History
The gentleman from Wisconsin engendered at least as much discourse in death as in life.
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Military History
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, a revolutionary British nurse and humanitarian credited with establishing the cornerstones of modern nursing practices. Nightingale distinguished herself for...
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American History
The first president's cool head and respect for science helped a young America survive smallpox and yellow fever
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MHQ Magazine
On Hitler’s 50th, adoring Germans hailed their leader for making their country a great power again and for stopping short of the all-out war they so feared—or so they thought....
