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Book Review: G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II (Barbara Brooks Tomblin) : WW2
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II by Barbara Brooks Tomblin, […]
Book Review: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust) : ACW
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by […]
Book Review: With Courage and Delicacy: Civil War on the Peninsula: Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission (By Nancy Scripture Garrison): ACW
The women of the U.S. Sanitary Commission risked their own health to care for […]
Book Review: Into the Valley, The Untold Story of USAAF Troop Carrier in World War II (Colonel Charles H. Young): AH
INTO THE VALLEY, THE UNTOLD STORY OF USAAF TROOP CARRIER IN WORLD WAR II […]
The North’s Unsung Sisters of Mercy
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.
Nurse Pember and the Whiskey War
From atop Chimborazo Hill on the western outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, Phoebe Yates Pember, […]
The GI Bill
More than 2,250,000 American veterans of WWII received at least part of their college education as a result of legislation known as “the GI Bill.”
Liberating Los Banos
As Allied forces reclaimed the Philippines, a number of prisons were liberated, including a […]
Turning Points: One Sunday in December
Dawn came up golden over Pearl Harbor, just waking from tropic dreams. December 7, 1941 would be a day of deceit. A day of shock and horror. A day, for Americans, ever to be remembered.