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.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading ...

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered a single photograph be taken of John Wilkes Booth's corpse, says Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography. Most experts agree that famed ...

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

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. By Robert Sullivan. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 464 pages; $32 THE TREES are cloaked in mist. In ...