Famous Nurses in History
Alcott, Louisa May:
Authored Little Women; volunteered for 6 weeks as a nurse in the Union Army during the American Civil War and wrote a book called Hospital Sketches (pub. 1863) based on her experience; Hospital Sketches received popular and critical acclaim at the time of publication
- Freely available resources
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- UVA School of Nursing blog:
- Text of , access provided by Tufts University
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- Choperena, A., & Fairman, J. (2018). Louisa May Alcott and Hospital Sketches: An innovative approach to gender and nursing professionalization. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(5), 10591067.
- Seiple, S. (2019). . Seal Press, Hatchett Book Group.
Cannary, Martha Jane (Calamity Jane)
Cared for the sick in Deadwood, SD during the smallpox epidemic of 1878
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- Rapid City Journal:
- Black Hills Visitor:
- Gehrke, K. (2015).
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- Herda, D.J. (2018). . TwoDot.
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Volunteered in the hospitals in Washington, DC after the Battle of the First Bull Run and in the Union hospitals during the American Civil War
- Freely available resources
- , from OSU
- , from Lippincotts NursingCenter blog
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- Baker, Jean Harvey. "." Americans at War, edited by John P. Resch, vol. 2: 1816-1900, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 105-106. Gale eBooks
Tubman, Harriet
Having escaped enslavement, she served as a nurse to the Gullah people and in the Union hospitals during the American Civil War
- Freely available resources
- , from New York State Nurses Association
- , from the UVA School of Nursing blog
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- . (2015). American History, 50(2), 8.
Whitman, Walt
Whitman moved to Washington, DC especially to volunteer to care for the wounded at Union hospitals during the American Civil; many of his works were inspired by his experiences there
- Freely available resources
- , from the Smithsonian
- : Walt Whitman and Washingtons Civil War hospitals, from the Walt Whitman Archive
- , from the National Humanities Center
- , by Walt Whitman, access by the Poetry Foundation
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- Hsu D. (2010). Walt Whitman: an American Civil War nurse who witnessed the advent of modern American medicine. Archives of environmental & occupational health, 65(4), 238239.
- Foley, S., Sofer, D., & Jacobson, J. (2000). I Am Faithful, I Do Not Give out. The American Journal of Nursing, 100(10), 48-49. 2307/3522316">doi:10.2307/3522316