At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... So newspaper publishers hired amateur and professional illustrators to sketch the action for readers at home and abroad.

Soon after the war, Gardner published his Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War, closed his Washington gallery, and went West to photograph the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. It was at ...

When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...

A working sketch of the monument for Raising the Shade ... collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the research was solidified ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...