Robert Wilson, author of Mathew Brady ... of the Civil War, edited by J. Matthew Gall… Historian and author William Davis talked about the different upbringings of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening two new exhibits that retrace the history of the Civil War, including a display of lesser known portraits by photographer ...

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Historian Bill Ryan likes to share his collection of American Civil War photographs, said to have been taken by Mathew Brady ... mile north of the toll bridge. Grant Atkinson, the club’s ...

This year begins the Civil War Sesquicentennial ... also purchased negatives taken during the war by and under the supervision of Mathew Brady from the H. T. Anthony Company, to which they ...

Her name is Pauline Cushman, an actress turned Civil War spy whose story dances ... was called the "Fairy Wedding." NPG, Mathew Brady Studio, 1863 Julia Dent Grant (1826-1902) was a constant ...

Although "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation ... of movable type or the Internet." Though Brady is best known for his iconic Civil War photographs, Wilson portrays him not as an artist or ...

The Civil War photographers also captured scenes of the war outside the dead and battlefields. Mathew Brady/Library of Congress Dead Confederate soldiers lie in a ditch in Antietam, Maryland.

One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War. By 1854, he was already photographing ...

If you’ve ever seen a portrait of a Civil War soldier or the landscape of a battlefield just after the cannon-fire has been silenced, then you’re familiar with the work of Mathew Brady. Now meet the ...

Mathew Brady, a 19th century pioneer of American photography, was known for both his portraits of celebrities as well as for his searing images of the Civil War. Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert ...