the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in the south. Taking place between 1861 and 1865, it was arguably the first ...

These images depicted the immediacy and realism ... Alexander Gardner, Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865 (New York: Delano Greenridge Editions, 2001) First ...

In 1875, Congress paid Brady $25,000 for full title to his Civil War images. A kidney condition ... taken in April of 1865, were the last before the President's death. He also documented ...

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

Slave Trading in the Civil War South A Harper's Weekly illustration of Confederate soldiers driving Black Americans south in 1862 Library of Congress In the late summer of 1865, a few months after ...

although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many perspectives on the Civil War and give a fuller understanding of this epic event.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.