When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began—and so did a new era in American ... tents offered troops a way to send photos home to their families, and the Black ...

Now, 150 years later, TIME looks back at the American Civil War… in color. We commissioned Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway to restore and colorize some of the most iconic images shot, in black and ...

The striking 150-year old tintype, one of the most enigmatic images from the Civil War, has just been donated to the Library of Congress by ... role of race in the United States.

Henderson and hospital steward Thomas H.S. Pennington of the 20th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment, as photographed by W.H. Leeson Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division When ...

WASHINGTON -- A Houston housewife who has quietly collected rare Civil War images for 50 years has sold more than 500 early photographs to the Library of Congress. The library announced the ...

Snapshots from the era of the Civil War ... library announced Friday that it has acquired more than 500 stunning images from the collection of Robin Stanford of Houston. They depict a United ...

a digital image restoration agency), have done United States history a favor by taking a large amount of the Civil War photographs available at the Library of Congress and turning them into ...

Wagner, a senior writer and editor at the Library of Congress. Wagner's new volume, "The American Civil War: 365 Days," has nearly 500 photographs, lithograph, paintings, drawings and cartoons ...

The Library of Congress will put 200 Civil War items on display in a new exhibit ... details about soldiers she met and later founded the American Red Cross. Some of the closing words come from ...

The striking 150-year old tintype, one of the most enigmatic images from the Civil War, has just been donated to the Library of Congress by ... role of race in the United States.