Women at War The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam Elizabeth Norman "This is a powerful story about some of nursing's finest contributions. The profession is indebted to this author for her persistence and sensitivity in capturing this important piece of history."--American Journal of Nursing Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why...

Bring Out Your Dead The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 J. H. Powell. Introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood "A brilliant and model treatment of one of the most macabre incidents in American History."--New York Herald Tribune "A brilliant case study of the visitation of the scourge in Penn's city."--American Historical Review "A fascinating history of Philadelphia's great plague. Historian Powell's conscientious grubbing among the records pays off with a cumulative effect of horror and heroism seldom found in the most...

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 Susan Smith Winner of the 1996 The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians Winner of the 1997 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing "Susan Smith's book addresses one of the most understudied aspects of African American and American public health and medical history: the emergence of black health activism in the United States. . . . Drawing upon an impressive range of archival sources deposited at historically black...