Full Title: How Civil War Nurses Promoted Voting Rights for Women, Changed Health Professions, and Created Women’s Pensions… and the Hartford Publishers Who Made It Possible

Now regarded as one of the most respected professions, nursing was once looked down upon as an occupation. In his talk, Associate Professor in Residence Thomas Lawrence Long of the University of Connecticut explains how the civil war helped change the overall attitude of the Nursing profession into one that saw them as heroes.

From the 2018 TEDxUConn Conference which took place on April 8th, 2018. The theme for the event was Zero to Hero. Thomas Lawrence Long, PhD, associate professor in residence, is a humanities scholar and faculty member in the UConn School of Nursing and is an affiliate of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The curator of the Josephine A. Dolan Nursing History Collection, he has published research on midwifery in the Early Republic, on Civil War nurse narratives, and on nursing in literature and culture. He is co-author of Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide (published by Oxford University Press in 2017) and provides writing support services in the UConn Center for Nursing Scholarship. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx