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 ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

Kedron Elementary students put a unique twist on their Civil War studies, drawing comic strips depicting key battles.

the anguish of death in battle and the grief of families at home. Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings ...