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

What happens when you combine a historic Fairfax location, period actors, games, and an Earth Day theme? You get a fabulous ...

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

Before meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant, the Lakota chief agreed to sit for Mathew Brady, famed for his Civil War-era photographs and his portraits of the prominent. Two days later ...

Agnew lost money, as Mathew Brady would ten years later when he tried to sell photographs after the American Civil War. Fenton took photographs for barely 11 years. Primarily a landscape and archi ...

Photography had come to America scarcely two ... and all the horrors of the Civil War—the figure who fought to end slavery and who, in the stirring Old Testament strains of his second inaugural ...

"Selling photographs of children naked for ... photographic technique introduced in 1851 and favored by Civil War documentarian Mathew Brady. It requires a large, cumbersome camera, a glass ...