1797-1806
- United States Congress, Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen, July 16, 1798
- Enslaved Healers and Midwives — Care in the Cabins, Early 1800’s
- Home Deaths at the Turn of the 19th Century (Late 1700’s-Mid 1800’s)
- Home Parlors and Funerals at the Turn of the 19th Century (Late 1700’s-Mid 1800’s)
1847-1856
- Lemuel Shattuck, Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850
- Elizabeth Stanton and delegates of the Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
- Sojourner Truth, Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, 1851 (as recorded by Frances Gage, 1863)
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
1857-1866
- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1860
- Walt Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser,” written from his wartime nursing experience 1862-1865
- President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
- President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
- United States Congress, Act Establishing the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
1867-1876
- U.S. Congress, Freedmen’s Bureau and the Medical Care of the Formerly Enslaved, 1865–1872
- Embalming and the Rise of the Funeral Profession after the Civil War, c. 1860s-1870s
- U.S. Marine Hospital Service, Reorganization and Supervising Surgeon, 1870–1873
- Poverty and Disease in the Postwar South, 1865–1876
2007-2016
- A Decade We Remember: 2007-2016 in American Life
- From Movement to System: Hospice and Palliative Care Become a Measured Presence
- Care Under Pressure: Different Hospice Models, Different Patterns of Care
- Rewriting the Rules of Access: The Affordable Care Act, Aging, and Serious Illness
- Healing in an Age of Trauma: Repeated Violence, Black Lives, and the Work of Care
2017-2026
- COVID-19: Distance, Disparity, and the Demand for Presence
- “I Can’t Breathe”: Racism, Suffering, and the Work of Care
- Workforce, Moral Distress, and Business Models: Who Stays, Who Leaves, and Who Decides?
- #MeToo and Hidden Caregivers
- Emergency Disasters: Climate Change and Community Violence
- Technology, Data, and the Meaning of Presence: Moving Faster Than Meaning
