Helen Purviance

Her Ruby Shoe Moment Helen Purviance dodged cold raindrops as she trudged through the mud to the army commissary on October 19, 1917. Her friend Margaret Sheldon was waiting for her back at the Salvation Army canteen hut where they both worked. Helen and Margaret had arrived at an army camp in Eastern France about 6 weeks earlier as part … Read More

Mary Edwards Walker

They called her a “medical monstrosity” simply because she was a doctor who happened to be a woman. Take a trip to the Civil War era to meet Mary Edwards Walker…