In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women--some ensured their family's survival through their skills, while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as …
"Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won't be necessary...If nurses are needed so desperately, why isn't the Army using coloured nurses"? "My arm gets a little sore …
At the outbreak of the Civil War, nearly everybody was caught up in patriotic fervor—men and women, Union and Confederate. Many women supported soldiers through knitting and sewing …