Watch as a skilled medical historian amputates a (model) leg using Civil War-era surgical tools.
by David Price
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum
Over 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. They stood side by side with male soldiers. Learn their stories.
Discover the man behind the poetry, as Garrett Peck introduces us to Walt Whitman the poet, the nurse, the brother, the lover, the clerk, the myth, and the man.
Historian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
Step into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about Washington, D.C.’s 19th century working women: government clerks, humanitarians, and prostitutes.
Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows. Dr. Brandi Brimmer tells all.
Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
