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From the Archives: Florence Nightingale Does the Math
Florence Nightingale is best known for her heroic efforts in the Crimean War(1), where she threw open windows, scrubbed filthy floors and equally filthy men(2), bullied doctors and officers on the spot, fought with the British Army’s military director, and saved lives. She returned home a heroine. Victorian Britain loved to celebrate a…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss is a journalist, public speaker and author of three works of narrative women’s history: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote and Fruits of Victory: The Women’s Land Army of America in the Great War, and, most recently, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools that Built the Civil Rights Movement. She…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Shannon Frystak
Shannon Frystak, Ph.D. is a first-generation college student who went on to pursue a Masters and Ph.D. focusing predominantly on Women’s History. An award-winning writer and historian, she is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the Department of History and Geography at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 2007. Her first book,…
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