Elizabeth Blackwell’s name is synonymous with breaking barriers and paving the way for women in the field of medicine. As the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, her ...

In “The Doctors Blackwell,” Janice P. Nimura tells the story of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, physicians who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves.

Most often remembered as the first American woman to receive an M.D. degree, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell worked tirelessly to secure equality for all members of the medical profession.

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. Her sister Emily was the third woman to do so. Their story is told in riveting detail by Janice P. Nimura ...

On a dreary Monday morning in the fall of 1847, 26-year-old Elizabeth Blackwell showed up for class at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York, en route to becoming the first woman in America ...

Posted: December 21, 2024 | Last updated: July 11, 2025 The first woman to graduate from a U.S. medical college, Elizabeth Blackwell broke through gender barriers to make history.

Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell were the first and third women doctors in the United States. Illustration by Lila Thulin, images courtesy of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard ...

Janice Nimura’s candid account engagingly captures Elizabeth Blackwell’s many contradictions, central to which was the condescension, and sometimes outright contempt, she showed her fellow ...

Google is celebrating Elizabeth Blackwell’s 197th birthday on Feb. 3 with a Google Doodle tribute. The Google Doodle shows Blackwell, a pioneer of medical and feminist history, at a desk covered ...