Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
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Women
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?
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.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
Devotees of this controversial science believed that the shape of one’s skull reflected the form of the brain and therefore revealed inner character.
Meet Silas Weir Mitchell, the father of neurology in America.
L.H. Roth searches for the women who nursed him back to health.
