All posts tagged "nursing"
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11.1KConnecticutJackie and Rachel Robinson, A Love Story
On Feb. 10, 1945, Jackie and Rachel Robinson got married in a big church wedding in Los Angeles. Two weeks later they...
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57.1K6MassachusettsJolly Jane Toppan, the Killer Nurse Obsessed With Death
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
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10.0K6ConnecticutDorence Atwater Records the Atrocities of Andersonville Prison
Dorence Atwater of Terryville, Conn., enlisted in the Union Army expecting to see first-hand the glory of war. Instead he saw its...
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7.4KMassachusettsLouisa May Alcott, Dangerous Fanatic, Kisses a Baby
In 1863, Louisa May Alcott horrified a Virginia woman by kissing a baby. The woman was white, the baby was black. Alcott...
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10.0K3MassachusettsHannah Ropes Spends 6 Months in Kansas With Loaded Pistols and Bowie Knife
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...
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6.0KbostonAnna Green Winslow Reports Aunt Sukey is Pregnant and the Groaning Cake is Made
Anna Green Winslow was a lively 12-year-old schoolgirl in pre-Revolutionary Boston who wrote to her mother about much of what she did....
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