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Mercy Street Season 2, Episode 4 GIF Recap

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Chaplain Hopkins and Emma Green in Episode 204

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Catch up on Episode 5, Southern Mercy, with an episode recap. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America

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Private Ames in Mercy Street Episode 204

Anya Jabour, Ph.D., explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War.

African American Firsts in Medicine: Setting the Standard for Future Generations

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Sam Diggs, played by McKinley Belcher III, tends to a sick man.

Audrey P. Davis, Director of the Alexandria Black History Museum, discusses the history of the first African American doctors to practice in the United States.

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