Miami University Department of Nursing, Miami Regionals Appalachian Studies, and the Hamilton Campus Women's History Month committee welcomes Susan E. Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN for a special ...

A Frontier Nursing Service nurse visited a family in the 1930s. When Mary Breckinridge started the rural health care program in Leslie and Clay counties in 1925, the area had few roads, so nurses rode ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These leather saddlebags were owned ...

There are riots in Hyden, but not about the police. Instead people are taking to the streets to protest the removal from their little chapel on Hospital Hill of a 15th-century stained glass window. At ...

Couriers’ duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode the routes between FNS outposts. Courtesy ...

The Forgotten Frontier (1931) is a documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.