The American Civil War changed what women were allowed to do. For the first time in our history, women were going to the fields of battle and contributing in countless ways.
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Expert blogger Sarah Handley-Cousins discovers the historical reality of ending pregnancies in the 19th century.
Intrigued by Samuel Digg’s character, our editor asked Dr. Robert G. Slawson, author of Prologue to Change: African Americans in the Civil War Era to write a brief introduction as to what the education and military service of African American physicians would have been like.
Assistant Director of the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, Auni Gelles, explores what Maryland was like during the Civil War.
Aurelia Johnson’s rape was a jarring, disturbing scene … While it left me a bit tired, I also felt it was important. Many television and film depictions of slavery are romanticized, and gloss over the visceral, individual horrors that enslaved men and women faced.
Clara Barton was thirty-nine and on her second career when the Civil War started. That didn’t stop her from getting involved, making a difference, and ultimately changing the world.
