This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

Medical activity flourished in the comparatively liberal atmosphere of the great Republican cities during the Civil War. Nationalist medicine, on the other hand, made very little impact in terms of ...

David Price, executive director of Maryland's National Museum of Civil War Medicine, said dropping both flags — Confederate and Union — is part of a rebranding effort after a series of expansions.

Medicine in the United States did some significant evolving during the Civil War. Prior to the war, humoral theory —where an imbalance between the body’s “humours” caused illness—still ...

FREDERICK — A bullet ripped into Richard Brown’s left thigh, and as the 21-year-old Confederate cavalryman struggled to stay mounted, his horse fell on him, snapping the same leg’s thigh bone.

The bloodiest war in American history was also one of the most influential in battlefield medicine. Civil War surgeons ...

Dr. Ira Rutkow talked about how medicine and surgery changed during the Civil War. He responded to questions from members of the audience. "The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?" ...

Civil War Medical Practice By Stanley B. Burns, MD . Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns ...

In this blog post, Shauna Devine, Ph.D., chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical and surgical practice in the mid-19th century.

While the Civil War saw many deaths from disease, this was in part due to a lack of knowledge. Medicine had simply not progressed enough to be able to respond to the needs of the soldiers.

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...