Historian Judith Giesberg discusses the impact the United States Sanitary Commission had in its efforts to support healthy practices in the Union army during the Civil War.
Civil War Breakthroughs is a podcast that explores how the inventions, ideas, and innovations of the Civil War era defined a new kind of conflict. In our second season, The Medical Renaissance, we'll explore how modern medicine took root during the Civil War.
On this episode, we're joined by Judith Giesberg, the Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University and the author of a number of books, including Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (2006). She talks about the impact the United States Sanitary Commission had in its efforts to support healthy practices in the Union army during the Civil War.