Learn about the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and the Army Medical Museum here. Learn more about key figures like Jonathan Letterman & Clara Barton.

Over two dozen riots raged over the controversial topic of dissection.

Many of us associate the Victorian era with an image of a delicate woman swooning on a couch, incapacitated by her period. Reality was a different story.

During the US Army's chaotic retreat during the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862, the need for an organized ambulance corps became abundantly clear.

Learn about birth control during nineteenth-century America in this blog post by Dr. Lauren Thompson

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? Freedpeople, or "contrabands," faced an uncertain future and very certain health threats.

Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell used the opportunities presented by the Civil War to transform the treatment of nerve injuries in America.