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Internet Resources for Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries

African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in CIvil War Medicine Traveling Exhibit
CBS News: Civil War Medicine: 37 Pieces of History
Civil War Scholars.com: African-Americans, Women, War Medicine
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine: Maimed Men

Videos on Civil War Medicine

C-Span: African American Civil War Surgeons

Notice

The site accompanied an exhibit highlighting African American contributions to medicine during the American Civil War.

The site will not be updated After May 1, 2018.

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine

The exhibit, developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, with research assistance from the Historical Society of Washington D.C. was available for viewing at the Cunningham Memorial Library on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana until October 6, 2012.

Internet Resources on the Civil War

Gettysburg.com: All About Civil War Clothing
Gettysburg.com: Civil War Dresses
History.com: The American Civil War
Medical and Surgical Care during the American Civil War, 1861-1865
National Park Service: Civil War Medicine
PBS: The Civil War

Gettysburg

Books on Civil War Medicine

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine
Doctor to the Front: The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861-1865
Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History: Containing Numerous Previously Unpublished Photographs of Surgeons, Nurses, Hospitals, and Other Facilities Used During the Civil War
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine