Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of President John Tyler, has died at 96, closing an extraordinary family ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

The origins of Memorial Day lie in remembering those lost during the Civil War. Established as a national holiday in 1971, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years” June 20 through . Drawing from the museum’s extensive ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.

Lee, which took place at Appomattox Court House. The Civil War coincided with a rise in photographic technology, and groundbreaking photographers like Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner took many ...

The image was taken around 1861 by an unknown portraitist in the New York studio of Mathew Brady, the photographer who would become indelibly associated with Civil War images. The photograph is a ...

In an Instagram post on Tuesday night, actor Alec Baldwin claimed that Americans are currently living in a "pre-Civil War" environment. The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

Library of Congress One of Mathew Brady's portraits of Mary Todd Lincoln ... was questioned throughout the Civil War. Even after her husband was shot on 14 April 1865 by Confederate supporter ...

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