Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

The world needs more nurses. If the heroes spotlighted in this article today teach anything it’s this: Be the change you want to see in your community.

Nurse Mary Phinney is adamant in Episode Three ... Ken Burns observed in his celebrated 1990 documentary that the Civil War gave American men an unprecedented opportunity to see their country ...

The inability to part is visible when Nurse Phinney declares to Dr. Foster at Starks’s bedside, “I can’t leave him!” and then weeps upon his death. Civil War nurses tell us that they ...

They could go to war and become nurses. But that was still putting them in a box. These women wanted to be in on the action. There isn’t a ton of data on the number of women who fought in the Civil ...