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March 2020 | SMITHSONIAN 1

24
Thou Shalt Not
Underestimate
Florence
Nightingale
History’s most famous
nurse, born 200 years
ago, rose to glory caring
for wounded soldiers
in the Crimean War.
But the full range of her
innovations, from sta-
tistics to social reform,
is still coming to light
by Joshua Hammer

34
Explosive!
Wading into a Civil War
controversy, a blast-
injury expert off ers a
bold new explanation for
the mysterious deaths of
the crew aboard a Con-
federate submarine
by Rachel Lance

07 American Icon: Grandma Moses


  • Subversive art?
    10 Art: Zilia Sánchez
    12 Wellness: Beauty queen

  • A tonic for what ails you
    18 Enterprise: Madam C.J. Walker
    20 Artifact: Nazi airplane
    22 Crossword puzzle: Clues “R” Us


features


The author at the controls of a hyperbaric chamber at Duke University.
She detonated numerous black powder charges to study the impacts
of the lethal torpedo carried by the HL Hunley.

prologue


44
Beasts of the
Northern Wild
Scientists brave the
deep snows and frigid
cold of arctic Alaska
in winter to study one
of its most furtive and
ferocious denizens: the
wolverine
Photographs by
Peter Mather
Text by Arik Gabbai

56
The Legend of
Limberlost
She was a writer as pop-
ular in her day as J.K.
Rowling is now. Yet you
won’t hear about Gene
Stratton-Porter unless
you visit the vanishing
Midwestern landscape
she helped save
by Kathryn Aalto

09


04 Discussion
80 Ask Smithsonian
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Cover: Art by Nigel Buchanan.
This original portrait of Florence
Nightingale incorporates portions of
her ingenious data visualizations.

March 2020

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
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