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.

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Webinar in which curator Shannon Thomas Perich presents Civil War-era photographs to show how photography was incorporated into everyday lives, and how we value those photographs today as historical ...

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 ...

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A West Hartford university is hosting a historically significant photography exhibition about a period in ...