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Aug. 8, 2006— -- The photographer was sleep-deprived and hungry, feeling the strain of weeks in a war zone. He'd already filed dozens of strong photographs, but under pressure to produce ...
Summary This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways. Date 2015 19th century Civil War, 1861-1865 ...
Archaeologists found human remains at Colonial Williamsburg, which surprisingly dated back to the Civil War rather than the Revolutionary War. AP The graves were aligned east-west, with the head ...
Justice has been done in recent years, and both Capa and Taro are credited with many crucial snapshots. Gerard Taro died in El Escorial in 1937, while working on photographing the Spanish Civil War.
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
How the Battle of Cold Harbor began By then, the Civil War was more than three years old, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians had died on its battlefronts. After years of thwarted ...
The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...
Mercer County Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 200 Civil War veterans, hosted commemoration services for the 160th anniversary marking the end of the Civil War. The event in Trenton attr… ...