In “The Girl in the Middle,” Martha Sandweiss uses the Peace Commission as a springboard to examine the transformation of the ...

Mark Katz, in his Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, calls an "amicable" break with Brady. In 1865, Gardner published a volume of frontline Civil War scenes ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

The Powell photograph was taken by the Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner, who posed the 21-year-old man against what appears to be the pitted metal cover of the ship’s gun turret.

The Morgan Library & Museum surveys the astonishing life and career of its founding director, Belle da Costa Greene.

Courtesy Cornell University - The PJ Mode Collections of Persuasive Cartography If you look at black-and-white photographs of ... the end of the Civil War created a new obstacle: racial division.

NEW YORK — In the waning years of the 19th century, Belle Marion Greener, daughter of a prominent African American civil rights advocate ... in England during World War II.

A cannon which dates back prior to the Civil War was restored over the winter and recently returned to Legion Park in ...

Mercer County Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 200 Civil War veterans, hosted commemoration services for the 160th ...

Filmmaker Alex Garland has teamed up with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza to make a new kind of war film. “Warfare” is based on ...

It’s because of her that I went toward photography. Seta had lots of art ... you said that during the Civil War, you learned that people who were normal and kind could turn into violent monsters ...