One way women served during the war was by staffing YMCA canteens. These sites near the war front were a refuge for soldiers, offering amusement and services like post offices, libraries, and general stores. Elisabeth Gilman, daughter of founding…
Official portrait of Eddie Bernice Johnson, 107th Congress. Elected in 1992 from Texas's 30th congressional district, she was the first registered nurse elected to Congress.
The war may have ended in 1918, but the work of mending soldiers’ bodies and minds continued. Shell-shocked soldiers returning from the front now needed help with adapting to life back in the United States. Shell shock thus became a civilian…