Windows In Time is the newsletter of the Bjoring Center and includes articles on nursing history by contributing scholars as well as programmatic news and announcements. To subscribe, please contact us at nurs-hxc@virginia.edu.
Read the latest issue here: Bjoring Center Fall 2025 Newsletter
Feature article: Reckoning with Race in Health Care by Dominique Tobbell, PhD.
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We showcase the nursing history research of five recently graduated UVA doctoral students.
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We tell the story of the Center's founding and its first three decades through 30 collections from our archive.
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Tobbell, D. (2023) Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing (2023).
Wall, B. M. (2017). Through the Eyes of Nursing: Educational Reform at the University of Texas School of Nursing, 1890-1989. Austin, Texas: Austin Books Consortium.
Keeling, A., Hehman, M. & Kirchgessner, J. (2017) History of Professional Nursing in the United States: Toward a Culture of Health. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Wall, B. M. (2015). Into Africa: A transitional history of Catholic medical missions and social change. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing.
Keeling, A.W. and Wall, B.M. (2015). Nurses and disasters: Global, historical case studies. New York: Springer Publishers.
Winner of the 2016 Mary M. Roberts Award for Outstanding Original Research and Writing in an Edited Book of Nursing History, American Association for the History of Nursing.
Kirchgessner, J.C., & Keeling, A. (2015). Nursing Rural America: Perspectives from the Early 20th Century, 1900-1950. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Tobbell, D. (2015). Health Informatics at Minnesota: The First Fifty Years. Minneapolis: Tasora Books.
Tobbell, D. (2012). Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences. Oakland, California: University of California Press/Milbank Series on Health and the Public.
Keeling, A. (2014). The nurses of Mayo Clinic: Caring healers. Rochester, MN: Mayo Clinic.
Wall, B. M., Keeling, A. W. (2010). Nurses on the front lines: When disasters strike, 1878-2010. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
An ongoing and occasional series, "Flashback Friday" takes its inspiration from a variety of sources--artifacts, old photographs and documents in our archive, voices of nursing lost, ignored or obscured in the historical record, the daily headlines, and more.