Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
by David Price
Hospitals
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.
Incredibly enough, the color-bearer in the first episode of Mercy Street PBS, was a true story.
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.
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.
Jonathan Letterman changed the course of the Civil War and of American medicine.
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 […]
