Center for the Study of Nursing History Historical scholarship on health care history and nursing in the United States. http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/default.htm

American Association for the History of Nursing Fosters the importance of history in guiding the future of nursing. Membership and conference information, online gift shop, and nursing history calendar. Also provides photographs of the graves of historically significant nurses with short biographies. http://www.aahn.org/

Voices from the Past: Visions of the Future Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, history page. http://www.ana.org/centenn/centbegn.htm

American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses Historical overview of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit nurses(PACU, formerly known as Recovery Rooms). http://www.aspan.org/Historical.htm

An 1895 Look At Nursing Excerpt from "Ambulance Work and Nursing" provides an enlightening look at the nursing environment of the day. http://enw.org/1895_Nursing.htm

Men in American Nursing History From prehistory to the present, an informative review. Includes suggestions for further reading. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011/

AAHN Nursing History 2000 Calendar A calendar of significant historical events in nursing history. http://www.aahn.org/calendar/

The Virtual Nurses' Memorial Dedicated to nurses who have died in the line of duty. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/6780/

Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Founded in 1987, CAHN promotes interest in the history of nursing and promotes scholarship in the field. Membership and scholarship information, book reviews and news. http://www.ualberta.ca/~jhibberd/CAHN_ACHN/

Black Nurses in History Is both an excellent bibliography and guide to online resources. http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/blacknurses.html

Nurses Uniforms Past and Present Provides a growing image gallery of Nurses Uniforms from the '30s to the present. An interesting resource for historians and costume designers. Includes useful links. http://dyk2.homestead.com/Index.html

Wilcox College of Nursing University of Connecticut's Archives and Special Collections: Wilcox College of Nursing started in 1908. Includes history of school, a list of graduates, and finding aid. (Almost all personnel and student files were held by the Middlesex Hospital and will be destroyed after the year 2000). http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/Wilcox/history.htm

How Nursing Advanced from the 19th Century Archived articles on nursing history from the University of Toledo libraries. http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack9.html

About Nurses and Nursing A collection of net links on nursing history and notable nurses, from About.com. http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/nursesandnursing/

Virginia Nursing History Highlights pertaining to the history of nursing schools, programs and organizations in Virginia from the 1890's to present. http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/speccoll/nursing/index.html

History of African-Americans in White A nurse educator's research and findings about early African-American nurses. http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/edpl/gordon/courses/863/nurses.html

History of Frontier Nursing Service A historical review of Mary Breckinridge's first effort to professionalize midwifery. http://www.frontiernursing.org/history_of_fsn.htm

Bangor Area Visiting Nurses In 1913, Edith Bicknell was the sole registered nurse of the Bangor Area Visiting Nurses. A short history of this nursing service, which still exists today. http://www.emh.org/bavn/mission.htm

Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry Established in 1991 at the University of Virginia for the preservation of the history of Nursing. Especially interesting are the online photographs and a highlighted collection. http://www.nursing.virginia.edu/centers/history.html

Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps Provided by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. Includes an introduction, the evolution of the cap, capping ceremony, and demise of the cap. An array of vintage photographs are provided. http://www.civilization.ca/hist/infirm/inint01e.html