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Retired pharmacist Greg Susla spotlights the medical benefits of foxglove and how it was used during the American Civil War.
The unknown dead of Gettysburg inspired Salome Marsh to jot down a brief remembrance of those who paid the ultimate price on the fields of battle.
Catherine Bateson explores the application of death and injury in Civil War songs.
Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.
The historical conception of “the good death” spoke to the experience of those were dying, but also shaped the mourning traditions of the living. Read more.
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.
After emancipation, what came next? Freedpeople, or "contrabands," faced an uncertain future and very certain health threats.
In the months after the Battle of Gettysburg, a Frederick resident made an explosive discovery along one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
