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 ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

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.

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 ...

Thirty years later, in 1899, Congress awarded her a pension for her service as a Civil War nurse, but not as a soldier spy. When she died from pneumonia on March 10, 1913, she was believed to have ...