Promotional card for a working women’s maternity fund, 1920s, Institute of the Working Woman, Spain (all images courtesy US National Library of Medicine) Whether angel on the battlefield or vixen of ...

Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...

An “angel of mercy” nurse who saw herself as putting patients out of their misery by hastening their deaths further damages the already fragile reputation of nursing homes, a long-time nursing ...