Nursing History Newsletter
Windows in Time
Windows In Time includes articles on nursing history by contributing scholars as well as news of recent nursing history programs and conferences, announcements of upcoming events, and updates on Bjoring Center activities. To subscribe, please contact us at nurs-hxc@virginia.edu.
- Windows in Time 2023 Spring
We showcase the nursing history research of five recently graduated UVA doctoral students. - 30th Anniversary Edition
"Object Lessons": We tell the story of the center's founding and its first three decades through 30 collections from our archive. - Windows in Time Spring 2021
Feature Article: Why Not? One Woman's Fight to Challenge Racism Within the Nursing Profession by Katy Hall, MSN, RN - Fall 2020 Windows in Time
Feature Articles: Jewish Refugees and the British Hospital World, 1938-1948 by Jane Brooks, PhD, RN, SFHEA; and Fear and Fortitude: Nursing Practice and the AIDS Epidemic, 1980-1990, by Lauren Catlett, RN, MSN, CNL - Windows in Time 2020 Spring
Feature Articles: 'The Necessities of the Emergency': New York City Nurses in the 1918 Flu Pandemic by Arlene Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN; and The (Queer) Wound Dresser: Expanding Walt Whitman's Place in Nursing History by Tyler Gaedecke (BSN '20) - Windows in Time 2019 Fall
Feature Article: Hidden No More: Oral Histories of Black LPNs; also Reclaiming Narratives of Filipino Nurses - Windows in Time 2019 Spring
Feature Article: American Mission Nursing in Iran, 1907-1947 by Lydia Wytenbroek, PhD, MA, BSN, RN - Windows in Time 2018 Oct
Feature Article: When Place Matters: The 1918 Flu Pandemic in Small Towns and Villages in the United States by Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2018 Apr
Feature Article: Two Narratives, One History: Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale by Darnisha Pitts - Windows in Time 2017 Sept
Feature Article: Transorbital Lobotomy at Eastern State Hospital, 1951-1954 by Janet Colaizzi, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2017 April
Feature Article: Seeds of Grief: Children's Orthopedic Hospital, 1907–1915 by Mary E. Gibson, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2016 October
Feature Article: Opportunities for Nursing History Research about U.S. Nursing in the Spanish-American War and World War I by Addeane S. Caelleigh - Windows in Time 2016 April
Feature Article: Making the Child "King of the Mountain": Care of the Convalescent Child at Children's Rehabilitation Center (CRC), 1951–1987 by Lisa Cantore Letzkus, RN, MSN, CPNP-AC, CCRN - Windows in Time 2015 Oct
Feature Article: Children of the Sun: Heliotherapy and Tubercular Children by Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2015 April
Feature Article: Hull House: A Safe Haven by Amanda St. Ivany, RN, BSN - Windows in Time 2014 Oct
Feature Article: "We Just Had to Line Them Up": Monica Conter, Army Nurse Corps by Gwyneth Rhiannon Milbrath, MSN RN - Windows in Time 2014 May
Feature Article: Called to Care for Foundlings, Orphans, Unwanted And Abused Children: St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, 1881–1972 by Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2013 Oct
Feature Article: A Most Alarming Situation": Responding to the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Alaska by Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2013 May
Feature Article: "It Hurts A Little, But You Can Have Ice Cream After the Surgery":
Tonsillectomy/Adenoidectomy, 1900–1955 by Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2012 Oct
Feature Article: Bridles and Babies: Couriers and Nurses in the Early Years of the Frontier Nursing Service by Anne Z. Cockerham, PhD, RN, CNM, WH - Windows in Time 2012 May
Feature Article: Virginia's Response to the White Plague by Mary E. Gibson, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2011 Nov
Feature Article: "We were all in it together": Medicine and Nursing in the 8th Evacuation Hospital, 1942–1945 by Patricia Kinser, WHNP, MS, RN
- Windows in Time 2010 October
Feature Article: “In the absence of proper medical and surgical skill”: Childbirth and Nursing Care Among the Mormon Pioneers, 1846-1866 by Emily C. Evans, MSN, RN - Windows in Time 2010 May
Feature Article: “The Fatal Hill is Giving Up Its Dead:” The Monongah Mine Disaster, December 1907 by John C. Kirchgessner, PhD, RN, PNP - Windows in Time 2009 Oct
Feature Article: “Above Average” Nursing Care: The Development of Intensive Care Nursing at the University of Virginia Hospital, 1954-1970 by Sarah White Craig, BSN, RN and John C. Kirchgessner, PhD, RN, PNP - Windows in Time 2009 May
Feature Article: “In and Out of Favor”: Scholarship and Nursing History by Joan E. Lynaugh, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2008 Oct
Feature Article: A “Cure” for the Privileged: The Impact of Insulin on Nursing Care of Children with Diabetes by Deborah Gleason-Morgan, RN, MSN, CPNP - Windows in Time 2008 Feb
Feature Article: The Prevention of Suffering is as Much Her Work as Nursing”: Origins of the City Union of the King’s Daughters Health Work in Norfolk by Mary E. Gibson PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2007 Sept
Feature Article: Serving an International Need at Home: the Medical Mission Sisters’ Catholic Maternity Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1944-1968 by Anne Z. Cockerham, MSN, RN, CNM - Windows in Time 2007 May
Feature Article: Women Providing Nursing Care in Charlottesville During the American Civil War, 1861-1865 by Barbara Maling, RN, MSN, ACNP - Windows in Time 2006 Sept
Feature Article: “Stretching Out a Hand to Heal”: A Beginning History of Parish Nursing in the United States, 1984-1997 by Lisa M. Zerull, MS, RN - Windows in Time 2006 Feb
Feature Article: “Manna from Heaven”: Religion, Nursing, and the Modern Hospice Concept by Joy Buck, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2005 Sept
Feature Article: “Caring for the Storkers”: Public Health Nurses and the Emergency Maternal & Infant Care Program, 1943-1947 by Nena Patterson, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2004 Nov
Feature Article: The Search for Penicillin by Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN - Windows in Time 2003 Oct
Feature Article: Herbal Medicines in the Kentucky Mountains: The Frontier Nursing Service, 1925-1950 by Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2003 May
Feature Article: Florence Nightingale's Views on Women and Women’s Issues by Lois Monteiro, PhD, RN - Windows in Time 2002 Nov
Feature Article: "Who Speaks for the Children?": Nurses' Initial Involvement in the Care of the Abused Child by Natalie McClain, MSN, RN, CPNP - Windows in Time 2002 May
Feature Article: The Nurse Habitué: The History of Addiction in Nurses, 1850-1982 by Barbara Heise, RN, MSN, FNP