This blog post was composed by former graduate assistant Emma Fenske, a Ph.D. student in the History Department. On January 8, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson announced a program that would become known as the War on Poverty. In his presidential address to Congress, Johnson highlighted that poverty was a significant problem within the United States, one that need to be…
Month: October 2024
(A&SCRC) Baylor’s Florence Nightingale Letters: How the School of Nursing Came to Hold A Piece of the Legacy of “the Lady with the Lamp” – And How You Can View Them Online
The nursing profession’s ties to Baylor date to 1909, when a diploma program was established at what is now known as the Baylor University Medical Center. Over the past century-plus, nursing education has been an integral part of the Baylor story, through decades of partnership with the Waco campus, the BUMC, and the present-day Louise Herrington School of Nursing in…