Hull was the first woman that the U.S. government accredited as a war correspondent. She did military reporting for 31 years, often putting her life in danger while covering stories on the front lines during wars.
Once, when Hull was on her way to interview a Chinese general, she and the car driver got trapped by a line of Japanese soldiers, who were bombing and shooting their way into the town. They hid in a tomb in a graveyard, and watched fearfully through a crack in the door. The driver tried to escape, but was shot. The troops moved closer, and she knew she would be killed if she stayed inside, or if she tried to leave. Hull frantically searched through her things, trying to find a piece of fabric with a message in Japanese that a friend had given her to help her travel through areas of fighting. She pinned the fabric on her coat, and let her long hair down so that they knew she was a woman, and walked out. The soldiers stopped, asked if she was lost, and safely transported her back to the city.
Hull's articles were popular because they focused on the lives of the soldiers, rather than simply the facts and geographies of battles. She talked to soldiers about their loved ones back home, the military food, and the little things that mattered to them. Readers appreciated knowing the details of military life. She believed strongly in supporting and writing about the soldiers, and said that she would cover them no matter where they were. She wrote from places like France, Japan, Russia, and Mexico, and lived among the soldiers, sleeping on the ground and marching from place to place with them.
Hull knew that war is more than just maps of military movement, that real humans are behind it all. There are many wars going on around the world right now. Does the news discuss how war affects the ordinary people wholive in those areas, or does it simply report on the leaders of the armies or how many soldiers were hurt? Find out how women and children deal with their male relatives fighting in a war. In some countries, women protest the violence and the government forcing men to join the military. In other countries, women fight alongside the men. Do ordinary people get hurt, even if they're not involved in the fighting? What do the military leaders say about this?