From the Archives 
Janet Maria Vaughan—An unlikely hero(0)
In the crucible of war, heroes are forged. We remember the political leaders who made critical decisions or the soldiers who put their lives on the line. Other heroes emerge without titles or uniforms. One example is Janet Maria Vaughan, MD (1899–1993). She started life unlikely to become a physician and even less likely to […]
German influences on U.S. surgery and the founding of the ACS
Describes how German surgeons influenced the founding of the College and how the German education model helped shape U.S. residency education.
Caring for the Hiroshima Maidens
Describes the work and enduring legacy of the U.S. surgeons who treated the “Hiroshima Maidens”—Japanese women who were disfigured as a result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Jennie Smillie Robertson, MD: One of Canada’s first women surgeons
One of Canada’s first women surgeons, Jennie Smillie Robertson, MD, is profiled.
Matilda Arabella Evans, MD: Resolute, resilient, resourceful
Matilda Evans, MD—the first African-American woman surgeon licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina—is the focus of this month’s column.
More in this category
- The first women elected to College Fellowship
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: War surgeon, suffragette, and pioneer in women’s rights
- John Gabbert Bowman, first Executive Director of the ACS
- The book that established plastic surgery in the U.S.
- J.M.T. Finney, MD, FACS, and AEF Base Hospital No. 18 in WWI
- The U.S. medical response to gas warfare in World War I
- The College, surgeons, and the Great War
- The rescue of Miss Inez Stone
- The Great War and the evolution of plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Guy de Chauliac and “What the Surgeon Ought to Be”
- The assassination of President James Garfield: Could he have survived?
- President Eisenhower and his bowel obstruction
- The covert operations performed on President Grover Cleveland
- Politics and the president’s gallbladder
- The Halifax Explosion and the unofficial birth of pediatric surgery
