Historical foundations of the specialty — the stories, surgeons, and discoveries that built reconstructive urology and urogynecology. This section is deliberately about the lineage rather than the literature: how urethral surgery passed from Sushruta's reed catheters to robotic urethroplasty across three millennia, how the McIndoe vaginoplasty descended from Wharton's lessons in WWII Burma, how the Brantley Scott AUS evolved from Foley's earliest experiments, and how the field's named eponyms — Heaney, Latzko, McCall, Boari, Mitrofanoff, Devine, Turner-Warwick, Webster, McAninch, Raz, Comiter — link to the patients and techniques that defined them.

The History pages narrate the evolution of technique by domain (urethral surgery, prolapse and urogynecology, prosthetics and ED). The Surgical Genealogy page — a directory and fellowship-training tree for the two reconstructive subspecialties, GURS (genitourinary reconstructive surgery) and URPS (urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery) — is in active development and currently functions as a call for collaborators; if you trained in either subspecialty and remember the lineage at your institution, we want to hear from you.

• HistoryOrigins and evolution of reconstructive urology, pelvic surgery, and prosthetic therapy — urethral surgery, prolapse, and ED treatment
• Surgical GenealogyIn progress — GURS and URPS mentor–trainee lineages. Looking for contributors with fellowship-roster and institutional memory.