Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine: Traveling Exhibit

Elementary and High School lesson plans featuring primary documents

Read original correspondence and view photos directly related to the exhibit

Rebecca Lee Crumpler attended the New England Female Medical College and in 1864 was the first black woman to graduate from a United States medical school. Ten years later the school merged with Boston University. Take a trip to Beacon Hill to find her home on the Boston Women's Heritage trail.

Learn more about Rebecca Lee Crumpler's neighborhood on The Black Heritage Trail.

The Boston Museum of African American History is located on Beacon Hill. The museum features the Abiel Smith School, the African Meeting House, and the Black Heritage Trail.

Visit The Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common. The memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, commemorates one of the first Black regiments of the American Civil War.