These days, women make up just more than half of all medical students in the U.S. There are more than 48,000 of them now. But there was a time when that number was one. Elizabeth Blackwell entered ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. It’s tempting to presume a clear line between intention and accomplishment, but Janice P. Nimura, in ...
Janice Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on “The Doctors Blackwell,” a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2022 ...
When Janice Nimura came across Emily Blackwell in the Sophie Smith collection at Smith College in 2015, she was intrigued and looking to fall in love with a project. Emily led her to Elizabeth, the ...
Through the sensitive weaving of correspondence and archival papers, Nimura produces a story of real-life heroines in this masterful biography of three samurai daughters sent to the U.S. after the ...
AS A YOUNG BOY, only 10 years old, Taku Nimura stepped off a train and viewed a barren landscape of barbed wire, watchtowers and sagebrush. It would be his home and prison for the next four years. The ...
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