Historical Perspectives

Harriet Tubman

was a nurse and abolitionist who led 300 slaves to freedom through the underground railroad.

Clara Barton

tended to wounded soldiers on the battlefield during the civil war and founded the American Red Cross in 1882.

Mary Mahoney

graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as the United States first African American nurse

Lillian Wald

established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick on the lower east side of new york

Florence Nightingale

became known as the mother of modern nursing. Also established nursing as an art and science

Mary Adelaide Mutting

became the first nursing professor in the world at Columbia University with Lavinia Dock in 1906

Dorothea Dix

organized diet kitchens, laundries, and supervised nursing staff during the war.

Dorothea Dix

served as superintendent of the female nurses of the Army during the civil war. She was given the authority for recruiting and equipping a corp of army nurses.