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Posts Tagged ‘Mercy Street’
Civil War veterans, particularly those with disabilities, faced significant challenges returning to society.
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Meet the first amputee of the Civil War: the man who will go on to create a prosthetic empire.
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Many of the rituals that we now understand to make up the American funerary tradition were developed and shaped in the 19th century
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Discover the stunning history of Civil War prosthetics and the men that wore them.
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Forget nip/tuck, plastic surgery had a whole different meaning during the Civil War.
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One of the greatest innovations of Civil War medicine was … a museum.
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One of the first riots in the United States was fought not over the living, but the dead.
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Over 400 women disguised themselves as men during the American Civil War. How did they do it?
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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?
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Discover how the US Army instituted a revolutionary new form of trauma care on Civil War battlefields.
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