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, ...

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 ...

Men such as Mathew Brady, best known of the Civil War photographers, lumbered up in their wagons to take static pictures after the battle, or gathered portraits of the generals and the men before ...

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 ...

In 1866, she arranged the objects more formally in a shrine-like display and had it photographed; the image was then widely distributed by the studio of the well-known Civil War photographer Mathew ...

A few days earlier, on April 12, the Confederates had attacked Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. “This announcement startled me, while my imagination portrayed the coming struggle in all its ...

Antietam also inspired the first intensive photographic coverage of a Civil War engagement—or, at least, of its horrific aftermath. A New York exhibition of Mathew Brady battlefield photographs ...