Eight decades after the 1709 violin known as the "Small Mendelssohn" disappeared, experts think they've located it in Japan ...

NIMURA: I think Elizabeth is the one who kind of wrenched open the door, this idea that women belonged in the medical profession. And then Emily is sort of the one who held it open because by ...

Biographer Janice Nimura tells the sisters' story in the new book, The Doctors Blackwell. Nimura says Elizabeth was "greeted with everything from rejection to hilarity" during her years at Geneva ...

Writer and historian Janice Nimura takes us to an era when the mere idea of a ‘lady doctor’ (in the parlance of the time) caused befuddlement at best and condemnation at worst.

Janice Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on “The Doctors Blackwell,” a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2022 ...

Janice Nimura: I started keeping a journal in 11th grade. It was an assignment for English class. But once I got going, I discovered what all writers know: Most of the time, you write not to set ...

Janice P. Nimura. On the C-SPAN Networks: Janice P. Nimura is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Speech.The year with the most videos was 2021 ...

Nimura admits that the Blackwell sisters project “was terrifying.” She was confident, she says, in writing her first book—Daughters of the Samurai (Norton, 2015), the story of five young ...

Janice P. Nimura. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-63554-6 Historian Nimura (Daughters of the Samurai) probes the lives of the pioneering Blackwell sisters, Elizabeth (1821–1910) and Emily ...