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Half a Century

Half a Century

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Number of Chapters: 81

Length: 10 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a congressional sex scandal. Frustrated by what she saw as the Massachusetts senator's surrender to the Southern Slave Power, she published an article alleging Webster's marital infidelities with women of color. As a result of the media storm that followed, Swisshelm lost her job at the New York Tribune. This is but one of the many episodes found in her 1880 autobiography, "Half a Century," which is a narrative of the frontier, of the fight against slavery, and of Swisshelm's fearless, compassionate, and innovative work as a surgical nurse treating Union soldiers who had suffered the most terrible wounds of war. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

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Ch. 1: I Find Life (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: Progress in Calvinism, Hunt Ghosts, See La Fayette (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: Father’s Death (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: Go to Boarding School (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: Lose my Brother (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: Join Church, and Make New Endeavors to Keep Sabbath (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 7: Deliverer of the Dark Night (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: Fitting Myself into My Sphere (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: Habitations of Horrid Cruelty (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: Kentucky Contempt for Labor (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: Rebellion (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: ‘Labor—Service or Act’ (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 14: Swissvale (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 15: Willows by the Water-Courses (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 16: The Waters Grow Deep (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 17: My Name Appears in Print (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 18: Mexican War Letters (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 19: Training School (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 20: Rights of Married Women (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 21: Pittsburg Saturday Visiter (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 22: Reception of the Visiter (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 23: My Crooked Telescope (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 24: Mint, Cummin, and Annis (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 25: Free Soil Party (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 26: Visit Washington (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 27: Daniel Webster (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 28: Fugitive Slave Law—The Two Riddles (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 29: Bloomers and Woman’s Rights Convention (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 30: Many Matters (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 31: The Mother Church (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 32: Politics and Printers (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 33: Sumner, Burlingame and Cassius M. Clay (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 34: Finance and Desertion (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 35: My Hermitage (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 36: The Minnesota Dictator (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 37: Another Visiter (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 38: Border Ruffianism (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 39: Speak in Public (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 40: A Famous Victory (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 41: State and National Politics (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 42: Religious Controversies (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 43: Frontier Life (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 44: Printers (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 45: The Rebellion (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 46: Platforms (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 47: Out into the World and Home Again (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 48: The Aristocracy of the West (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 49: The Indian Massacre of ‘62 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 50: A Missive and a Mission (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 51: No Use for Me Among the Wounded (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 52: Find Work (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 53: Hospital Gangrene (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 54: Get Permission to Work (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 55: Find a Name (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 56: Drop My Alias (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 57: Hospital Dress (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 58: Special Work (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 59: Heroic and Anti-Heroic Treatment (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 60: Cost of Order (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 61: Learn to Control Pyaemia (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 62: First Case of Growing a New Bone (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 63: A Heroic Mother (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 64: Two Kinds of Appreciation (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 65: Life and Death (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 66: Meet Miss Dix and Go to Fredericksburg (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 67: The Old Theater (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 68: Am Placed in Authority (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 69: Visitors (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 70: Wounded Officers (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 71: ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep’ (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 72: More Victims and a Change of Base (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 73: Prayers Enough and to Spare (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 74: Get Out of the Old Theater (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 75: Take Boat and See a Social Party (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 76: Take Final Leave of Fredericksburg (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 77: Try to Get Up a Society and Get Sick (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 78: An Efficient Nurse (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 79: Two Fredericksburg Patients (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 80: Am Enlightened (Pamela Nagami)
Conclusion (Pamela Nagami)
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