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Editor's Note-Arlene W. Keeling Special Section: Past as Prologue-The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 Introduction Michelle C. Hehman The Boston Instructive District Nurses Association and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic: "Intelligent Cooperation." Arlene W. Keeling The Alaskan Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919. Maria Gilson DeValpine and Arlene W. Keeling "We are capable of handling the current crisis, even if it is just shift by shift": Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic Beth Hundt Face Mask Follies: How a Simple Protective Covering Symbolized the State of Nursing and American Society in 1918-19 and 2020. Marian Moser-Jones Articles Imperial Sisters: Patriotism and Humanitarianism in the Letters of British, Australian and New Zealand Profession Nurses, 1914-1918 Christine E. Hallett and Pamela Wood Home Nursing, Gender and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War (1861-1865) Kristen Brill Hidden in Plain Sight Red, White, and Black: The Debate Over the Active Service of Black Nurses in the United States during the First World War Ella St. George Carey An Analysis of Nigerian Igbo Petitions to U.S. Missionary Nurses, 1965. Martha Highfield Book Reviews Nursing the Nation: Building the Nurse Labor Force, by Jean C. Whelan Reviewer: Susan A. LaRocco Beyond Nightingale by Carol Helmstadter Reviewer: Erin Spinney Public Health Nursing of Jim Crow Florida, by Christine Ardalan Reviewer: Sandra B. Lewenson Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920-1950, by Clifford E. Trafzer Reviewer: Arlene W. Keeling The Untold Story of Annie McKay and the Boston Public School Nurses 1905-1988: The Formation of the Massachusetts School Nurse Organization, by Dorothy M. Keeney Reviewer: Mary E. Gibson Media Reviews Medical Services and Warfare 1850-1949 Adam Matthew Reviewer: Erin Spinney The Chicago Maternity Center Story and The Fight for Life Reviewer: Eileen Thrower Nursing History Digitization Project: Nursing Education in Nova Scotia Reviewer: Lydia Wytenbroek Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health and Pandemic Histories Reviewer: Lucy Vorobej Guidelines for Contributors
Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and associate director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.