Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Melissa Winn of the American Battlefield Trust provides opening remarks for her lecture about the rise of portrait photography during the Civil War.

It was America’s bloodiest war - brother against brother, fighting to the bitter end. We grew up hearing that, and if it sounds overhyped, consider that its toll of 750,000 lives was nearly twice the ...

The Civil War claimed the lives of approximately 620.000 young men, tore families apart, and shaped a nation. The conflict holds immense historical significance. This restored and colorized collection ...

There are a few verifiable truths about Civil War photographer Timothy O’Sullivan. He was born in 1840 in Ireland. He apprenticed in the studio of famed photographer Matthew Brady, and he took what he ...

The era of the American daguerreotype -- The roots of celebrity -- The rebels shoot first -- First efforts in the North -- Gardner at Antietam -- Embedded with the troops -- Gettysburg -- The dawn of ...

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In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

Images as vast and as haunting as their subjects comprise the bulk of this collection, which accompanies a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moving in roughly chronological order through ...