Historian Peter Carmichael of Gettysburg College, with the support of the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, developed this series of 10 lesson plans designed to engage advanced high school or college students with the history of medicine and healthcare during the U.S. Civil War. These powerful interdisciplinary lesson plans center on primary document analysis and facilitate student exploration of such themes and topics as racism, nineteenth-century ideas about psychology, wartime amputations, and the role of women nurses and the sexism that they experienced when serving in the Civil War. Each lesson includes detailed descriptions of how to implement the lesson along with all accompanying lesson materials, including primary source material, secondary readings, and links to additional web resources. This series is also highly interactive, incorporating role playing alongside discussion and analysis. These lessons may be of interest to not only history teachers, but also instructors of health or science.