Studio portrait of Dorothea Dix ... The desperate situations created by the Civil War prompted many women, Northern and Southern, nuns and laypeople, to break long-held traditions and social ...

A century-and-a-half since the Civil War began, the faces of these women are preserved in photographs by the father of American photojournalism, Mathew Brady. His portraits show the many faces of ...

Since its creation, this country has been served by men and women willing to ... from 10 exceptional war photographers: five from modern wars and five from the Civil War. American war photography ...

What concept did the 19th century man or woman face “quite commonly ... for her lecture about the rise of portrait photography during the Civil War. Direct your students to answer the ...

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War exhibit.The display highlights the essential contributions of women during the war, both on and off the battlefield.

Civil War historian Brian Kesterson stands in the niche by the portrait of William Henry Enochs by 19th century artist Enoch Wood Perry. Enochs, a native of Middleburg in Noble County, honorably ...

The Civil War continues; most people in Cincinnati ... Library St.): Bridget Quinn appears virtually to talk about “Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde ...

"Portrait of an Unseen Woman" imagines the later life of Anna Kneeland Haggerty Shaw, a real-life woman known to history only as the widow of Civil War Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. The 1989 film "Glory" ...