The Tenacious Nurse Nichols

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Eileen Yanoviak (Ph.D. Art History, 2017) has been appointed as the new Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History, a department of the New Albany-Floyd County Library in Indiana. The Carnegie Center for Art and History is an important cultural resource in the area that promotes the visual arts and presents, collects, and preserves regional history. Among its signature programs are the Public Art Project series and the exhibition "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad." She has worked in museums in the south for more than fifteen years.

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The story of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a Civil War nurse who escaped slavery in Tennessee, served among the ranks of the Union Army, finally found independence, and achieved notoriety, nobility, and self-sufficiency in a post-Civil War era that often denied black Americans and women justice and opportunity.