Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
by David Price
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Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Discover the story behind the real hoop skirt assassin.
When Dr. Foster diagnosed Tom with irritable heart, did he essentially diagnose him with the Civil War’s equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Not exactly.
Intrigued by Samuel Digg’s character, our editor asked Dr. Robert G. Slawson, author of Prologue to Change: African Americans in the Civil War Era to write a brief introduction as to what the education and military service of African American physicians would have been like.
Learn more about the doctor that diagnosed “irritable heart.”
Incredibly enough, the color-bearer in the first episode of Mercy Street PBS, was a true story.
Blood is not blue or gray. It is all one color.
Explore the roots of international law, and what the doctors had to guide them in 1862.
Ashley Bowen shares the history of irritable heart, a brand new diagnosis in 1862.
