In the stories, find primary source evidence and background information to understand and interpret the history of women in medicine
A Female Civil War Surgeon: "How Dr. Mary is Remarkable”
1864
Explore the story of a controversial woman doctor who served in the Civil War and fought for women's rights
A Female Medical Student’s Life: “I’ve finished the eye and I’m up on my ear”
1896
Explore what it was like to be a student at Woman’s Medical College at the turn of the 20th century
Early African-American Woman Physicians: "She has undertaken a Herculean task"
1901
Explore how early African-American women doctors created their own opportunities and cared for their communities
Early Medical Missionaries in the Middle East: “Why I Want to Go to Arabia”
1920
Explore the challenges faced by American women physicians who worked in the Middle East and South Asia in the early 20th century
Eliza Grier and Matilda Evans: Two Women, Two Paths
1900
Explore how two early 20th-century African American woman physicians who graduated the same year fared in their medical careers
Pioneers in the Face of Adversity: “The Mob of ‘69”
1869
Explore the opposition that 19th-century female medical students faced and overcame to acquire a medical education.
The American Women’s Hospitals and the Fire of Smyrna: “Millions of refugees, almost totally without men”
1922
How were American women physicians involved in the refugee crisis that followed the burning of the city of Smyrna in 1922?
The American Women’s Hospitals at Home: Public Health in Depression-Era Appalachia
1930
The American Women’s Hospitals in World War I France: "Across Battlefields and into Villages”
1919
Explore how American Women’s Hospitals played a vital role in providing medical care to civilians in WWI-era France