Historian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
by David Price
After the War
Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows. Dr. Brandi Brimmer tells all.
L.H. Roth searches for the women who nursed him back to health.
Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
Learn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.
