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

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 ...

Brady, c. 1851 National Portrait Gallery Charles Loring Elliott by Mathew B. Brady, c. 1850 National Portrait Gallery, conservation made possible by a grant ... of the Civil War made him ...

As photography was not invented until the 1820s, the Civil War was one of the first wars to be photographed. Famous photographers such as Mathew Brady and ... Ulysses S. Grant (pictured in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...