Join us for an eye-opening presentation on health care in the Continental Army. Through captivating stories we’ll delve into the harsh realities of wartime medicine and the challenges faced in military hospitals. Our presenter, equipped with museum-quality surgical instruments, will demonstrate the extreme procedures doctors often performed, from skull trepanning to limb amputation.

Presenter's Bio:

Douglas T. Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was the Curator and Deputy Director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, the Education Coordinator for the USS Constellation Museum, in Baltimore, and has spent most of his career working as the Resource Interpretive Specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation.  He has researched and presented papers at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council for Social Studies. He is the Executive Producer of “Middlesex County History” a podcast series that will focus on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County. 

* This program was funded in part by the New Jersey State Library’s REV 250: Examining the Semiquincentennial through a Jersey Lens