Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
by David Price
Mercy Street PBS
Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
Discover the stunning history of Civil War prosthetics and the men that wore them.
Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
Over 400 women disguised themselves as men during the American Civil War. How did they do it?
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.
