Allison S. Finkelstein

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

The first women to serve in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps helped improve military medicine and expand women’s opportunities to officially serve in the armed forces.

By learning about an overlooked cohort of women who served in World War I, we can expand our understandings of memorials beyond physical statues and monuments.

Decorating graves with flowers, from a Civil War grassroots ritual of remembrance to a national tradition honoring all military dead.

Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.