. >> here to talk about civil war medicine and disabled veterans, sarah handley-cousins, phd candidate at the state university in buffalo. joining us also is ashley-bowen -- ashley bowen-murphy, who just got her phd at brown university. our focus has been the panel you did at the aha on the pbs show "mercy street." let me start with you, ashley. how would you describe that showed to people who have not seen it and how realistic is it? ashley: it is a scripted drama that takes place at a union field hospital. exceeding a union general , hospital. it is pretty accurate. they worked with a lot of historians. they did a lot of research into both what occupied alexandria was like an specific family members -- the green family, a major character in the show. they were real people. some of the physicians and surgeons and other folks are composites of the various people who would have worked there, but there is a lot of reality. the new york times called it "gray's anatomy" with crinolines, pretty good description? >> the fabric that civil war women would have worn. ashley: which i think is pr

sarah handley-cousins -- legal and murphy, thank you for being here. you are watching american history tv all weekend on c-span3. facebook., like us on the national law enforcement museum is currently under construction and said to open in 2018 and washington, d.c.. until then, the museum artifacts are stored at a facility in forest bill, maryland. we visited with rebecca looney and curator sarah haggerty to learn about the museum and the collections which will tell the story of law enforcement history. >> we are at the collections storage facility for the national law enforcement museum. we have about 17,000 objects we will use to tell the story of american law enforcement. -- at the new museum. the facility is climate controlled. we will make sure all of the objects stay safe until the opening day and we can put them on display. national law enforcement museum will be opening in judiciary ,quare in washington, d.c. straight across the street from the national law enforcement officers memorial. the museum is an outgrowth of the law enforcement memoria

sarah-- bill: handley-cousins -- legal and murphy, thank you for being here. you are watching american history tv all weekend on c-span3. facebook., like us on the national law enforcement museum is currently under construction and said to open in 2018 and washington, d.c.. until then, the museum artifacts are stored at a facility in forest bill, maryland. we visited with rebecca looney and curator sarah haggerty to learn about the museum and the collections which will tell the story of law enforcement history. >> we are at the collections storage facility for the national law enforcement museum. we have about 17,000 objects we will use to tell the story of american law enforcement.

. >> here to talk about civil war medicine and disabled veterans, sarah handley-cousins, phd candidatet the state university in buffalo. joining us also is ashley-bowen -- ashley bowen-murphy, who just got her phd at brown university. our focus has been the panel you did at the aha on the pbs show "mercy street." let me start with you, ashley.