Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.
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Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.
Just as Joss Whedon challenged the society’s preconceived notion of the girl in a horror movie by creating Buffy, we challenge you to second-guess what you think of women in the past.
Over 400 women disguised themselves as men during the American Civil War. How did they do it?
A Civil War chaplain’s work was harrowing, improvised, and all too often underappreciated.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Devotees of this controversial science believed that the shape of one’s skull reflected the form of the brain and therefore revealed inner character.
Did you know Louisa May Alcott, famous for writing Little Women, was a Civil War nurse?
As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city’s war-time hospitals.
