![]() She grew into an understanding that history is made of stories and fell in love with archival treasure-hunting, especially when it led to the forgotten lives of border-crossing nineteenth-century women. in East Asian studies at Columbia upon their return to her native New York. Nimura Narrated by: Laural Merlington Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins 4.2 (188 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. She thought she wanted to be a doctor, but life intervened: she majored in English at Yale, worked in publishing, moved to Japan with her Tokyo-born husband, and completed an M.A. The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By: Janice P. ![]() The book is a joint biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and her sister Emily. Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine. ![]() ![]() "The one thing I know I'll never be is a historian," she told her college guidance counselor in 1988. Today on the blog, Gotham editor Katie Uva speaks to Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book and her essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, The Rumpus, and LitHub, among other publications. ![]()
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