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...

Located in Richmond, Virginia, the American Civil War Museum (ACWM) was formed when its predecessors, the American Civil War Center and the Museum of the Confederacy, merged into a single institution that opened in early May 2019. The mission of this new museum is "to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the American Civil War and its legacies from multiple perspectives: Union and...