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 ...

The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively, bringing shocking and often horrific images to the front pages and into people's living rooms. Photography ...

click image for close-up By the time this photo was taken, William Lloyd Garrison's dream of a United States with no slavery had been realized. In 1865, at the close of the Civil War, and after ...