Nursing History Page

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Associations

• American Association for the History of Nursing website.  Contains the Nursing History Calendar, a student page, a historical methodology page, and links related to nursing history

• Australian Nurses in Vietnam - From the Royal Australian Nursing Federation

• Canadian Association for the History of Nursing - From the University of Alberta, Canada; newsletter, book reviews, and links on nursing history

Collections

• Black Nurses in History - From the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the Coriell Research Library

• Boston University History of Nursing Archives - Lists what is available at Boston University; little information online

• British Red Cross Museum and Archives - Includes Red Cross nursing

• Center for the Study of the History of Nursing - From the Unversity of Pennsylvania

• Cherry Ames Page - Summaries of books about the most famous fictional nurse

• Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton Notable Women Ancestors

• Clara Barton at Fairfax Station -- Founding of the Red Cross - From the Fairfax Station Museum

• Clara Barton Homestead - From the NRHP Travel Itenerary

• Clara Barton - The House  Clara Barton National Historic Site 

• Clara Louise Maas ANA Hall of Fame Inductees

• Genessee School of Nursing Archives, Rochester, NY

• Graves of Prominent Nurses - From the American Association for the History of Nursing

• Historical Roots of the Nursing Profession in Islam, by Prof. Dr. Omar Hasan Kasule, Sr. - The history of Rufaidah, the first professional nurse in Islamic history

• History of Nursing Colloquia - From the Oxford Brookes University, UK

• History of the Frontier Nursing Service U.S.Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places

• From Internurse.com, descriptions of three historical figures:

  • Ethel Bedford Fenwick, 1857 - 1947, Founder of the British Journal of Nursing and early nurse educator

  • Florence Nightingale - Historic leader of nursing

  • Mary Seacole, 1805-1881, Jamaican nurse who served in the Crimean war

• Josephine A. Dolan Collection  - From the University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Center; prepared by Laima Karosas

• Lillian D.Wald - From the National Association for Home Care

• Margaret M Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing is an organization open to anyone interested in the history of nursing in Ontario, Canada

• Margaret Sanger Clinic -From the NRHP Travel Itenerary

• The Margaret Sanger Papers Project - From the Department of History New York University

• Mary Breckinridge - From the Center on Nursing Advocacy

• Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World - By Valerie French, Helios, New Series 13(2), 1986, pp. 69-84

• Nurse Dougherty was first:  Nursing Regulation in New Zealand, 1901-2001, online display of an exhibit at the Archives New Zealand, Wellington.  Did you know that New Zealand was the first country to pass licensing legislation?

• Rockefeller Archives of nursing history

• Rochester (NY) General's history page - several nurses

• Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals Schools of Nursing

• United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing - From the Royal College of Nursing, Edinburgh, and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

• University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of the History of Nursing -  Devoted to students of nursing history and the dissemination of historical research in nursing

• University of Toledo libraries - Nursing history page

• ViaHealth collection

  • Mary L. Keith - First female hospital administrator

  • Sophia French Palmer - Nurse reformer

  • Eva Allerton- Nurse reformer

  • Sylveen V. Nye - Founder of the New York State Nurses Association

• Also, check out the Victoria University of Wellington's Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery's 100th Anniversary web page.

• The Virtual Nurses' Memorial - Commemorates nurses lost in the line of duty. Includes nurses lost at the World Trade Center, 9/11/01

• Zwerdling Nursing Archives - Offering the most fascinating book on nursing ever published, from Michael Zwerdling, RN, historian and author

Discussion List

• NURHIS-L Electronic discussion list for nursing history buffs

Nursing and the military

• American Women Veterans page - a chronology of American women in the military

• American Women and the Military page - an outline of how American  women have served in war

• An 1895 Look At Nursing - From Emergency Nursing World

• Army Nurse Corps History - From the AMEDD Museum, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio

• Civil War Nurses - William Ludwell Sheppard's watercolor, In the Hospital, 1861

• Dorothea Dix Civil War Biography

• First Lieutenant Sharon A. Lane - From Kent State University, a description of the only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire in Vietnam

• History of Nursing Education at Scott and White - From the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

• Hospital Ships in History - From Hospital Ship International(H.S.I.)

• Medical History of World War - Letters and photos from nurses serving in France

• The First Indian Army Nurses - From Indian Country, May 20, 2002

• Post WWII and Korea Women Were There!

• Women are veterans too! By Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Retired)

• Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from St. Lawrence County - From the American Association of University Women

• Women in the U.S. Navy - History and firsts of women in the U.S. Navy, from the Navy Public Affairs Library

• Women in Vietnam - Bibliographies and much more

• Women's Role in the War - Market  Harborough An East Midlands Town in the First World War

• Women Were There - women in the wars of 1812 and 1846 and in the Spanish American war

• World War 1 documents on nursing - From the Great War Primary Document Archive in Arizona

Historians

• Jo Ann Ashley (b. 1939-d. 1980)

  • Wrote a timeless book, Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse (Teachers College Press, 1976) that still applies; a must read 

  • Recent release of This I Believe About Power In Nursing - Collection of Jo Ann Ashley's writings, put together by Dr. Karen Wolf

• Nightingale Papers - Collection from the University of Kansas

Methodology

• Guide to Canadian nursing archival resources - Requires Adobe Reader; free download available here

Online Journals

• Pflegegeschichte online - Online history of nursing journal from Germany

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Celebrating the life of Christopher Edward Sheets,

10/11/74 - 10/12/02, son, friend, and mentor.

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