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Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.

Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.

Just as Whedon challenged society’s preconceived notion of the girl in a horror movie, we challenge you to second-guess what you think of women in the past.

More than 400 women disguised themselves as men to serve as soldiers during the American Civil War. How did they pull it off?

A Civil War chaplain’s work was harrowing, improvised, and all too often underappreciated.

After emancipation, what came next? Freedpeople, or "contrabands," faced an uncertain future and very certain health threats.

Read about phrenology & the civil war from National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Get insight on key figures including Jonathan Letterman & Clara Barton.

Louisa May Alcott experienced the horrors of the Civil War firsthand. Explore how Alcott's short nursing career impacted her life.

As the Civil War raged, poet Walt Whitman set up shop in the Union capital and volunteered in the city's war-time hospitals.