In this blog post, Schultz explains how the growth of the railway and urgent need for qualified nursing staff during ... 1990 documentary that the Civil War gave American men an unprecedented ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War ... turned into field hospitals. Hospitals routinely took both Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...