One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
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One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
Many of us associate the Victorian era with an image of a delicate woman swooning on a couch, incapacitated by her monthly visitor. Where did this image originate? And how closely did it hew to the reality of women’s lives in Victorian America?
Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
Victorian Americans, like us, spent a lot of time thinking about how to not get pregnant.
A Civil War chaplain’s work was harrowing, improvised, and all too often underappreciated.
Military medical illustration came of age during the early 1860s with the outbreak of the Civil War.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Meet Silas Weir Mitchell, the father of neurology in America.
