Talking History 2021

A Series of Monthly Webinars on the History of Nursing.

Join us for new, original research in the history of nursing. Nursing CEs will be given.

Registration Fees

Free for members -  While free to members, donations to defray the cost of the webinar are welcome.
$25 per session for non-members.

Webinar Sessions


January 23, 2021 11am-12:30pm EST
Public Health and Disaster

Moderator:
Mary Gibson

Presenters Topics
Laurel Sanders “Field Nursing” in Indigenous  Appalachia, 1928-1938
Christine Ardalan Hidden in the Shadows of Florida's Seminole History: The Work of Three Federal Field Nurses from 1934 to 1957
Claire Chatterton 'The Village that Lost its Children. Disaster Nursing and Aberfan  

 
Members can access the webinar recording of the 1.23.21 session by logging in to the Members Only Page and clicking on Talking History 2021.


February 20, 2021 11am-12:30pm EST
Midwifery and Race

Moderator: Winifred Connerton

Presenters Topics
Melissa Sherrod Meddlesome Midwifery: Institutional Racism as a Factor in Unnecessary Cesarean Deliveries
Eileen J.B. Thrower "With no Words to Get Me Out": Elizabeth Sharp and the Development of Nurse-Midwifery in Georgia
Charlotte Swint Margaret Charles Smith Midwife from Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama

 

Members can access the webinar recording of the 2.20.21 session by logging in to the Members Only Page and clicking on Talking History 2021.


March 19, 2021 11am-1pm EST
Nursing Education

Moderator: Dominique Tobbell

Presenters Topics
Carole Bennett Negotiating the landscape of racism History in the making 
April Matthias Untangling Typhoid: Comparing Early 20th Century Instruction for Quality, Evidence-Based Nursing Care
Janet Engstrom Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Courage: The Pioneering Work of Mary Bristow Willeford
Hrag David Yacoubian From Witnessing a genocide to establishing American style nursing education  and hospitals: U.S. nurses in the near east 1915-1923

 

Members can access the webinar recording of the 3.19.21 session by logging in to the Members Only Page and clicking on Talking History 2021.


April 16, 2021 11am-12:00pm EST
War and Nursing

Moderator: Barbra Wall

Presenters Topics
Suzanna Wagner An Accounting of War: A Canadian Military Nurse's First World War Expense Record
Tawny Tseng The London Apothecary Society and the American Nurse Practitioner: A Tale of Two Struggles and Strength in Numbers

 
Members can access the webinar recording of the 4.16.21 session by logging in to the Members Only Page and clicking on Talking History 2021.


May 21, 2021 11am-12pm EST
Identity and Nursing

Moderator: Donna Curry

Presenters Topics
Richard Bates Florence Nightingale, Nursing Institutions and the Ideology of "Home"
Mariangela Figueriredo Professional Identify of the nurse in the nightingalean system

 
Members can access the webinar recording of the 5.21.21 session by logging in to the Members Only Page and clicking on Talking History 2021.