“Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library through March 8. The National Library of ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

Explore Frederick's important role in the history of medicine. Frederick, Maryland, played a vital role during the Civil War, serving as a key medical hub for wounded soldiers from the battles of ...

The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons learned fast, and many of their MacGyver-like solutions have had a lasting impact ...

Most Civil War histories evoke the bravura of 19th century military skill, of masses of men moving across open fields to face other orderly masses of men and commence killing each other. Few books ...

The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

Rushville Encampment on the Square will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27, at 3252 Market Street in Rushville. It features a Civil War living history encampment, drill and musket ...

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A West Hartford university is hosting a historically significant photography exhibition about a period in ...

If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but ...