The American Civil War was the first major conflict ... from snapping even the most graphic of post-battle images to illustrate the horrors of war. Several of the images in this gallery are ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...

After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at how blacks were involved on both sides in the fighting of the Civil War, students engage in ...