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How the US Civil War Inspired Women to Enter Nursing

Source: History

What does the history of nursing have to do with the American Civil War? Learn how a demand for nurses during the war led to women revolutionizing the field of modern medicine.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom, The Move Toward Freedom and tagged Health & Medicine, History on August 1, 2025 by molly.

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