Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine 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 Schulich ...
Graves containing the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers and three amputated human legs are the latest discoveries to come out of an archaeological excavation at a 161-year-old battle site in ...
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Knight with the iron hand — the "Iron Hand" of Goetz von Berlichingen; made by a goldsmith — all fingers could be moved individually. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images) Perspective by Heidi Hausse The human ...
Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Napoleonic War, American Civil War and American Indian Wars. Could ...