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Topic Archives:Women

The Grieving Mother Who Took the Vietnam War To LBJ

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher11/14/202211/15/2022
A nurse helps prepare a patient for an operation at the 7th Surgical Hospital, a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), at Blackhorse base camp near Saigon in 1968. Nurses were among the earliest U.S. service members to arrive in Vietnam.

Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

by Tom Edwards9/20/20222/27/2023
Gabe and Nannie Wharton

A Confederate Love Affair: Was This the Most Romantic Couple of the Civil War?

by Sarah Richardson9/16/20222/7/2023
Drawing of actor Joseph Jefferson in costume as Asa Trenchard.

‘Our American Cousin’: The Play That Lured Lincoln to His Doom

by Daniel B. Moskowitz9/13/20229/13/2022
Woman at writing table

A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Nurses, Activists, Soldiers, Spies: Women’s Roles During the Civil War

by HistoryNet Staff8/31/20229/22/2022
Portrait of Cordelia Harvey

How One Civil War Widow Revolutionized Health Care

by Ron Soodalter8/24/20222/27/2023
Polly Adler with friends at lake Opatcong in New Jersey, 1923.

Who Was Polly Adler, the Celebrity Madame of the Roaring Twenties?

by Peter Carlson8/23/20222/27/2023
Commander Farrell, USS Constitution

Old Ironsides Gets its First Female Commanding Officer

by Dave Kindy8/22/20222/27/2023

Mott, Stanton and Anthony: The Friendship That Won Women the Right to Vote

by Sarah Richardson8/17/20223/31/2024

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