Carnegie Center's "Harriet Eaton and Civil War Relief Work" on March 10.

Just imagine, the conflagration of America's Civil War, and the fact that when it began ‎150 years ago, the Republicans actually got one right. Even the Cubs have managed to win a World Series since then. At any rate, there'll be much looking back in the years to come, and Laura Wilkins from Carnegie Center for Art & History invites you to this special Women's History Month program on Thursday, March 10, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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"Harriet Eaton and Civil War Relief Work: Cooperation and Collision in Military Field Hospitals" with author Jane E. Schultz

The Carnegie Center is pleased to welcome author Jane E. Schultz on March 10, 2011, from 7-8 pm for the program “Harriet Eaton and Civil War Relief Work: Cooperation and Collision in Military Field Hospitals.” Schultz will speak about how we have now come to understand the importance of medical partnering in medicine during the Civil War. As medicine was professionalizing and nursing was not yet a profession, doctors and nurses who worked together during the war depended on one another to get the job done. After the war, as nursing became a profession, physicians were no less dependent on teams of workers, but professional status actually separated the objectives of nurses and doctors in the later 19th Century. Harriet Eaton, whose diary Schultz published in 2010 as This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton, will provide the focal point for this free lecture. Signed copies of This Birth Place of Souls will be available for purchase. Registration is required (812-944-7336 or click HERE to email your registration to Public Relations Associate Delesha Thomas; please include your name and telephone number in your email).

This program is generously underwritten by Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services.

Jane E. Schultz has been Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) since 2006 and Director of Literature in the Department of English since 2007. Her book Women at the Front: Female Hospital Workers in Civil War America, published in 2004, was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize (a national award for the best book on the Lincoln era) and the Peter Seaborg Award (a prize of the George T. Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War). In addition to presenting conference papers nationally and internationally, Schultz is the author of numerous scholarly articles, in publications ranging from the Journal of Civil War Medicine to the Chinese Medical Humanities Journal. Other lectures in 2011 are to include “From Nurse to Icon: The Apotheosis of Florence Nightingale in America’s Civil War” at King’s College, London, and “Civil War Medicine and Relief Work: Collaboration and Collision” at the National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Schultz is currently at work on her next book, Blood, Lead and Ink: A Concise History of Civil War Medicine.