What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era and Today Time 2 days ago © Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives (2); National Archives
When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and so did a new era in American photojournalism. But even though the conflict was the first U.S. war to be systematically photographed, photographs of Black Civil War soldiers, 160 years later, are hard to find.
Even harder to find are photographs of a small subset of those troops: the 13 men who, out of more than 180,000 Black Americans who served in the Union Army, are known to have done so as surgeons, according Jill L. Newmark’s research for the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today
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Bookworm: Celebrate Women s History Month with these books
In a time of great division, two new books explore the Civil War
Terri Schlichenmeyer
By Lauren Marino, illustrations by Alexandra Kilburn
c. 2021, Abrams Image
“The Girl Explorers”
“The Women s History of the Modern World”
By Rosalind Miles
$16.99, $21.00 Canada; 432 pages
Fifty percent of the population. Give or take, that s how many women there are in the world, women who work, raise families, care for others, paint and create and dance. So, this month – Women s History Month – why not celebrate those who wrote, explored, and made change?
You know how much you love a really good book, so look for this one: “Bookish Broads” by Lauren Marino, illustrations by Alexandra Kilburn.