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Nursing History Internet Resources
Links to other non-profit, education and
government web sites with content relevant to nursing history is provided
without endorsement of those sites.
AAHN encourages web visitors to look to
traditional sources, libraries, archives and special collections, for
the answers to their questions on nursing history - the webmaster is unable
to provide the answers to research or general nursing history questions.
Always cite your sources and beware of websites
with no documentation!
Ad-Access
Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents
images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed
in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Ad-Access
A History of U. S. Army Base Hospital
No. 48 - Nurses
This page is part of the Homéopathe International, a French non-profit
organization dedicated to develop an information database on homeopathy
on the net.
Nurses at U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 48
American Association for the History
of Medicine
The AAHM web site has links to many interesting resources in the history
of science and medicine.
AAHM Web Site
American Collectors of Infant Feeders
For those who collect nursing artifacts, specifically invalid feeders,
this is a collectors' organization. The ACIF considers invalid feeders
a "go-with" or related item. Their website has information on both the
association as well as the history and information on invalid feeders,
pap boats, medicine spoons and similar items.
American Collectors of Infant
Feeders
American Historical Association
Home page for the American Historical Association
American Historical
Association
American National Red Cross
For American Red Cross Archives please see the
History Centers page. The Red Cross web site has a virtual museum
with organizational history.
Vintage
Posters
American
Red Cross - Museum
ARC- Store
An 1895 Look at Nursing
Reproduced at this Emergency Nursing World site is a very long excerpt
from the book Ambulance Work And Nursing - A Handbook On First Aid
To The Injured With A Section On Nursing, Etc. W. T. Keener &
Co. circa 1895.
An 1895 Look
at Nursing
Archives for Research on Women
and Gender (ARWG)
ARWG is under the direction of the University of Texas- San Antonio. This
web site provides not only the womens archives of Texas but provides links
to women's archival collection throughout the country and a few international
collections as well.
Archives
for Research on Women and Gender
Army Nurse Corps Association
ANCA is a voluntary organization of, by, and for United States Army Nurse
Corps officers
Army Nurse Corps Association
Black Nurses in History
This is a "bibliography and guide to web resources" from the UMDNJ and
Coriell Research Library. Included are Mamie O. Hail, Mary Eliza Mahoney,
Jessie Sleet Scales, Mary Seacole, Mabel Keaton Staupers, Susie King Taylor,
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman.
Black
Nurses in History
Brief History of Black Women in the Military
This feature was written by Kathryn Sheldon, former Curator for Women
In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
WIMSA
feature
CADUCEUS
CADUCEUS-L: is the History of the Health Sciences Forum, a moderated electronic
discussion list that provides a forum for exchanging information on any
aspect of the history of the health sciences. It includes announcements,
inquiries, and discussion on access to historical sources. To subscribe
send e-mail to:
listproc@list.umaryland.edu
Leave the subject line blank, and in the message put only:
Sub CADUCEUS-L
Canadian Association for the History
of Nursing (CAHN)
Founded in 1987 the CAHN is an interest group of the Canadian Nurses Association,
with the purpose to promote interest in the history of nursing and to
develop scholarship in the field. Their annual meetings are in June.
CAHN
Cherry Ames
This site has an extensive collection of material related to the Cherry
Ames series. Included are an essay on "Cherry Ames War Nurse:
Fiction meets Reality" and complete lists of the books in this series,
as well as links to other nurse books, such as the Miss Pinkerton series
written by (nurse) Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Cherry Ames
Civil War Resources
Civil War sites abound on the Internet. Here are some relevant to nursing:
Clendening History of Medicine Library
- Florence Nightingale Letters
A selection of Florence Nightingale manuscripts, including links to other
Nightingale web sites.
Letters from
Miss Nightingale
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
This site details the work on an upcoming publication on the writings
of Florence Nightingale.
Collected
Works of Nightingale
Country Joe McDonald's Florence Nightingale
Tribute
This site contains a chronology of Nightingale and is loaded with images.
Unfortunately there is poor documentation although he mentions Sir Edward
Cook's biography of Miss Nightingale. There is also a lovely calendar
that can be printed out.
Joe McDonald's
Nightingale Tribute
Crile Hospital Archives - Healing
Others: Healing Ourselves, A videohistory of the African American
Nurse
The current project of the archives of this former Army Hospital is to
document the history of the African American Nurse. They are eliciting
materials to further enhance the collection.
E-mail Dr. Banks
The Crile Archives Western Campus C.C.C.
11000 Pleasant Valley Road
Parma, OH 44130
Phone: 216-987-5594 Fax: 216-987-5050
Crile
Hospital Archives
Edith Cavell
There are numerous resouces on Edith Cavell to be found on the internet.
One of these is:
Edith Cavell
Florence Nightingale Museum Trust
Built on the site of St. Thomas Hospital this museum is dedicated to preserving
the legacy of Nightingale. Open Tuesday - Sunday.
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1, 7EW UK
Phone: 00 44 171 620 0374
Fax: 00 44 171 928 1760
E-mail Curator@florence-nightingale.co.uk
Web site Florence
Nightingale Museum Trust
The Foundation for the History of
Women in Medicine
Their mission is "preserving the past to influence the future"
of women in medicine.
FHWIM
P. O. Box 543
Pottstown, PA 19464
Telephone: (484) 945-2106
Foundation for the History
of Women in Medicine
Frontier Nursing Service
On this site is a brief history of the midwifery service founded by Mary
Breckinridge in 1925. The page is by Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners
and Nurse Midwives.
Frontier
Nursing Service
Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
The Guide to Canadian nursing archival resources is a PDF document
which lists materials within Canadian archives, museums, libraries and
professional nursing organisations, compiled by the Canadian Association
for the History of Nursing [CAHN].
Canadian
Archival Resources
The History Guide
The History Guide was created for the high school and undergraduate
student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major
in history in college. A Student's Guide to the Study of History, What
is History? and Resources for Historians are available.
The History Guide
History Matters
Created by the American Social History Project / Center for Media
and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Center for History and New
Media (George Mason University). There are many stories of nurses and
nursing here - use the keyword search.
"This Is How It Was": An American Nurse in France During
World War I
Beyond Bedpans: The Life of a Late Nineteenth Century Young
Nurse
"Cutting a New Path": A World War II Navy Nurse Fights Sexism
in the Military
Kellogg African American Health Care Project: The Oral Histories
Also on this site is Making Sense of Evidence guides to primary source
material. History
Matters
History of Health Sciences Resources
This jump site for resources in all health sciences is from the website
for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA.
History of Health Sciences
History of Medicine On-Line
An on-line journal devoted to the history of medicine.
History of
Medicine On-line
History of Medicine Resources
Selected Special Collections and Archives in the History of Medicine from
Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Listing
of History of Medicine Collections and Archives
HIV/AIDs 20th Anniversary
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first publication about AIDS,
The NIH History Office launched a website, In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers
Recall the Early Days of AIDS. The website features some of the oral history
interviews the NIH Historian,Victoria A. Harden, and her colleagues have
done since 1988 with NIH physicians, scientists, nurses, and administrators
whose work comprised the NIH's response to AIDS between 1981 and 1988.
In Their Own Words
History of Registration, from Royal British Nurses' Association
Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, THE mover and shaker for registration in the UK,
is featured on this site.
Registration
History - Britain
Invalid feeders, pap boats and feeding
bottles
A private collection of Lawrence Webster.
Ceramic Feeders
Library of Congress
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Historical Collection for National Digital Library
American Memory consists of collections of primary source and archival
material relating to American culture and history. These historical collections
are the Library of Congress's key contribution to the national digital
library. Most of these offerings are from special collections of the Library
of Congress. (http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spclhome.html).
Library of Congress:
American Memory
Also available from the Library of Congress is material on Walt Whitman,
including his "Hospital Notebook".
Walt
Whitman Notebooks
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Margaret Sanger, birth control activist, was a nurse. This web site details
the project of the Department of History at New York University to arrange
and publish her papers which are in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith
College Archives. Information about video productions and links to related
web sites are available.
Margaret
Sanger Project
MedHist
Sponsored by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of
Medicine [UK], this is a guide to history of medicine resources on the
Internet.
Medical History Electronic Discussion List
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
There are some source materials to be found here, including Florence
Nightingale on Rural Hygiene, from Selected Writings of Florence Nightingale.
The site also has material on Studying History, Using Primary Sources.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
My Aunt My Hero
Helen Fairchild was a member of the Pennsylvania Hospital Unit during
World War I. This web site features a summary of her life and considerable
correspondence from Miss Fairchild to family during her service at the
front.
My
Aunt, My Hero
My Mother's War
Helen T. Burrey was an American nurse who served as a Red Cross Nurse
during World War I. She documented her experience in both a journal and
a scrapbook which has been treasured by her daughter, Mary Murphy. Ms
Murphy has placed many of these items on the Internet for people to access
and it provides a first-hand account of that experience. Additionally
she has a variety of links to other WWI resources.
My
Mother's War
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide
holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential
Libraries. Most of the holdings related to nurses are military nurses.
NARC-National
Archives
National League for Nursing (NLN)
- History
This page offers a brief history of the NLN at three points in the last
century: from its start in 1893 as the Society for Superintendents of
Training Schools, the re-organization and name change in 1952 and some
contemporary activity.
History
of the NLN
National Library of Medicine -
Online and Digital Exhibits
A changing selection of their collection is online.
NLM Online and Digital Exhibits
National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections (NUCMC)
NUCMC is a cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress
for organizations without access to the Research Libraries Informtion
Network (RLIN). NUCMC's home page has a link (click on the cataloging
icon) to a search form that will provide researchers with free access
to the RLIN AMC file. Archives or other organizations with nursing archival
holdings may be located using NUCMC.
NUCMC Home
Page
Native Women Veterans
This page, by Brenda Finnicum, started as a tribute to and history of
Native American Nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. It has expanded to include
all Native American women veterans.
Native Women
veterans
Navy Nurse Corps Association (NNCA)
For veteran Navy Nurse Corps members. This site sells a book, In and Out
of Harm's Way, about the Nurses Corp History
Navy Nurse Corps Association (NNCA)
PO Box 1229
Oak Harbor WA 98277-1229
Navy
Nurse Corps Association
Navy Nurse Corps: Oral Histories,
Corps History and Photographs
There are some oral histories from members of the Navy Nurse Corps, mostly
circa WWII.
Oral
Histories from Navy Nurse Corps
Nursing History Links - Nurses.Info
Nurses.info is owned and financially sponsored by Australian Nursing Agency.
There are some pages on nursing history and links to other sites.
Nursing History
LinksThe Nursing Sisters of Canada - Veterans Affairs
Canada
History
of Canadian Nurses
On-Line Images from the History of Medicine
This system provides access to nearly 60,000 images (reproducing photographs,
artwork, and printed texts) drawn from the extensive collection of the History
of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine. This database
is searchable; this is a very busy website.
On-Line Images from
the History of Medicine
Footnote -Original Documents
View, save and share original images or historical documents on the internet.
Requires a subscription or access through a subscribing library.
Footnote
Pioneer nurses of West Virginia
Linda Cunningham Fluharty has developed this site that explores history
of nurses, schools, hospitals in West Virginia.
West Virginia Nursing History
"Pflegegeschichte online"
Online German journal for the history of nursing, between 199-2001. This
is in German and is in PDF format.
Pflegegeschichte
online
Rockefeller Archive Center
The Rockefeller Archives, located in Tarrytown NY, has a significant collection
related to nursing AND funding is available for researchers using their
collections.
Rockefeller
Archive Center
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America,
Radcliffe College
Archive and women's history center.
Schlesinger
Library
Sigma Theta Tau International - Archival Resources
This page has some history of Sigma Theta Tau International as well as
information on the role of an archival consultant by Veronica C. O' Day,
and a list of the Heritage Committee which is meant to assist STTI chapters
in preserving their history.
STTI
Heritage
Southern Association for the History of Medicine
and Science
They hold an annual conference in the Spring.
SAHMS website
United States Archives with Web
Sites
A listing of over 3000 web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives,
rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the
research scholar. These U.S. archives are arranged geographically.
Archives with Web Sites
Virginia Nursing History
Virginia Nursing History was compiled by the Joint History Committee of
the Virginia Nurses' Association and the Virginia League for Nursing and
is maintained by Special Collections and Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library,
VCU Libraries, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Virginia
Nursing History
Women's History Resources
These web sites provide links to many resources on Women's History
National Women's History
Project
Women's
History: A Todd Library Research Guide
Women in Vietnam
This website has a collection of articles and published documents, including
letters and audiotapes by and about women who served in VietNam.
Women in
Vietnam
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