Discussed how women participated in the civil war. She focused her talk on a nurse. The book is called hospital sketches. All right, welcome to read to a class that will focus on women and all tourism during the u. S. Civil war. Read a primary source a woman whotten by purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. Our classart off today by looking at possible hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, voluntarism n womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, enter and her hospital sketches, published during the war. They would be realized and published. Americans who read magazines they could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i wou
Discussed how women participated in the civil war. She focused her talk on a nurse. The book is called hospital sketches. All right, welcome to read to a class that will focus on women and all tourism during the u. S. Civil war. Read a primary source a woman whotten by purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. Our classart off today by looking at possible hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, voluntarism n womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, enter and her hospital sketches, published during the war. They would be realized and published. Americans who read magazines they could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i wou
You all read a primary source document written by a woman who purchase spitted in the civil war, luisa may alcott who worked as a nurse. We will start off our class today by looking at possible at hospital sketches, which all of you should have available to you. Out and ready to see. The big question that we are posing and investigating today, is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices they make joined the civil war, and how did that volunteerism, affects the outcome of the civil war . [it is really two questions] those are our overarching questions. So we start with Louisa May Alcott, and her hospital sketches, published during the war. T was serialized and published americans who read magazines it was published in could read about her experiences in the civil war era hospital. So, i would like to hear your thoughts about this account of civil war hospitals. What makes you think about Louisa May Alcott . I will scoot this down so we can look at her while were talking about her.
Dereceivingly busy to be honest with you. You see the system spilling into mountains the one location dealing with showers and snowflakes as we head to evening hours toward the midnight hour. Its mountain tops to the west. The mountains act like a shield and keep it safe. Stormtracker radar you can see not much of what you saw hitting the ground. Maybe area light drizzle or two north of baltimore and in d. C. Cloudy. We should keep it dry and as we roll through the evening hours theres clouds break up and clearing and cooler temperatures out. There Reagan National 49 this hour or that was the high today. Last day of 016, 47 dulles, 48 bwi and temperatures on the chilly side. 48 washington and 45 gaithersburg and 45 baltimore as the sunsets and we get cooling out there. Some will drop to the 30s in d. C. We keep it mid to low 40s by the time the ball drops in new york city midnight tonight. Again skies clearing and happy new years everybody. Heres holiday forecast. Low overnight 39 just
Both what occupy alexandria was like an specific family members the green family, a major character, they were real people. Some of the physicians and surgeons are composites of the various people who would have worked there, but there is a lot of reality. The New York Times called it great anatomy with crinolines, pretty good description . The fabric that civil war women would have worn. Ashley which i think is pretty accurate. As much as there is medicine and history, it is also really funny and there is drama and love stories and other stuff. Sarah, what interested the aha in putting together a discussion . Why were they interested in having a discussion on what mercy street means to historians . Sarah ashley is the one who came up with the idea for the panel, and it came out of conversations she and i had been having as we watched each episode on twitter, tweeting at each other about the ways that things were portrayed or little bits we could see of historian work coming out in the