Mercy Street 
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4-17-16
Mercy Street in Context: Historian Pamela Toler on the Real Nurses of the Civil War
by Robin Lindley
Historian Pamela D. Toler provides historical context for the PBS series in her new book "Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War."
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1-22-16
The New PBS Series on the Civil War: An Interview with the Creator of "Mercy Street"
by Robin Lindley
Filmmaker and executive producer Lisa Wolfing explains what it was like to create a show for PBS about the nurses and doctors who served at a Union hospital during the Civil War.
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1-20-16
“Mercy Street”: The Nearly Flawless New Series on PBS About the Civil War
by Kevin M. Levin
It’s the Civil War as the people who lived through it experienced it. And it’s superb.
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