Online Resources for Teachers and Students

Take a digital field trip and explore the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum online via Google Maps.

Browse the lesson plans our staff has prepared based on Maryland educational guidelines to help students and teachers with distance learning.

This 30 minute documentary compares the life saving work Clara Barton did on the Civil War's front lines with modern health care efforts.

Check out our blog for an assortment of topics related to Civil War medicine and how it impacts us today.

Check out the new video content produced for the Virtual Museum Initiative covering various aspects of Civil War Medicine.

This playlist of short minute long videos sheds light on several of our artifacts and explores their importance.

Jonathan Letterman not only saved thousands of lives on the battlefield, his innovations as Medical Director for the Army of the Potomac give birth to the emergency medical system we use today. This one hour lecture will share the story of this incredible man, and his continuing impact today.

Colonel Laura R. Brosch, RN doesn’t just know military medicine, she lives it. She has spent her career both caring for the wounded and, like Jonathan Letterman, improving the process by which the wounded are cared for. In this lecture COL Brosch shares her experience, and why Civil War military medicine and modern military medicine aren’t as different as one might think.

Check out this online exhibit and interactive map detailing where escaped slaves settled in wartime Washington DC.

Our digital exhibits explore what it was like for Civil War soldiers on the march. What did they carry with them? What sort of cloths did they wear? What did they have to say about marching? Find out here.

Watch Dr. Robert Slawson present on his book covering the history of the Civil War's African American surgeons.

Listen to our expert staff talk about the incredible history and relevancy of Civil War medicine on these podcast episodes.

Check out the times the museum has been featured on C-SPAN. Topics include Women Soldiers, Studying Civil War Soldier Remains, The Battle of Antietam, and more.

These online lists of primary sources organized by topic cover all aspects of Civil War medicine from nurses' letters from the front lines to memoirs from people like Major Jonathan Letterman who revolutionized medicine as we know it.

This playlist of videos explores some of Frederick's Civil War hospital sites. Following the Battle of Antietam, ordinary churches, schools, and hotels had to be converted into hospitals for months.