Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

Due to the scale of medical need at the battlefields ... As a result of the American Civil War (1861-1865), American companies were better equipped to meet the demands Britain faced.

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine, presented by the ... African Americans fought for full participation in American society and as surgeons and nurses ...

We recently had a research request regarding women physicians and their role in the Civil War. At least two Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania graduates and one student provided medical care on ...

We have previously taken a brief look at female doctors who served during the Civil War; today, with Veterans' Day upon us, we examine a number of women physicians who served in twentieth-century wars ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have ... in treasonous activities against the American government—an accusation that infuriated ...