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Includes a Table of Contents.Includes over a dozen illustrations and photographs of famous women of the Civil War.Women’s Work in the Civil War: a Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience is an expansive history of the female heroines … more

One dedicated woman…giving voice to the suffering of many  Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separ… more

Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, professional nurses have been involved in caring for the sick and wounded in combat situations. This book contains the accou… more

Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were “confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.” Out… more

A New York Times bestseller and a moving Civil War novel about a young midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon   Fans of Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, Cold Mountainby Charles Frazier, and Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennife… more

Originally published as chapters in Charles Morris’s “Heroes of American Progress” (1906) and Grace Humphrey’s “Women in American History” (1919), this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, descr… more