This week’s episode was full of Civil War slang. We’ve put together a list of some of our favorites. What do you think they mean?
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Civilians
Historian Kathleen Logothetis Thompson explores mental stress, psychological trauma, and suicide among Civil War soldiers.
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.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
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.
Blood is not blue or gray. It is all one color.
Explore the roots of international law, and what the doctors had to guide them in 1862.
George Wunderlich, former Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and on-set adviser for Mercy Street shares his memories of how the show took shape and his thoughts about the […]
