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Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
Read More »Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
Read More »Discover the stunning history of Civil War prosthetics and the men that wore them.
Read More »Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
Read More »One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
Read More »One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
Read More »Over 400 women disguised themselves as men during the American Civil War. How did they do it?
Read More »Many of us associate the Victorian era with an image of a delicate woman swooning on a couch, incapacitated by her monthly visitor. Where did this image originate? And how closely did it hew to the reality of women’s lives in Victorian America?
Read More »Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
Read More »Victorian Americans, like us, spent a lot of time thinking about how to not get pregnant.
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