For many, the name Mathew Brady is synonymous with Civil Warphotography. Brady (1823-1896) was...Shaw, Kurt
Even if it was set up, it could be argued that it remains a powerful symbol of the Spanish Republican cause. Tens of thousands of Republican soldiers died, and symbols aren’t necessarily any the less powerful because they have been staged. There are still deep scars left by that war, an...
took many pictures of famous people.The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality.Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war.His 1862Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and destroyed cities.They made the war seem more real and more ...
John F. Stevens was an accomplished engineer with vast experience in building several American railway lines. In 1905 Secretary of War William Howard Taft appointed Stevens Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission. It is said that success of the canal was his doing. After returning to priv...
Never mind pets. The real question is how could you make people understand one thing, the value of helping save lives. If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? Here’s the story: I was just thinking of those guys,” said Charles, a father of four. “We ...
The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality. Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and destroyed cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible. In the 1880s new ...
Supporters of the Kuomintang party, which had lost to the Communists during the Chinese Civil War, escaped to the island in 1949. Only one in ten of the world’s countries have recognized Taiwan's independence and not a single country in Europe, North America or Asia has established ...
July 1913. "The heart of Detroit." Landmarks in this panoramic view over the Campus Martius include, from left, Fort Street, the twin towers of the Dime Savings Bank, City Hall, the Majestic Building at the corner of Michigan and Woodward Avenues, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and...
Since Mathew Brady and his team used the glass-plate camera to document the lives and deaths of soldiers in the US Civil War, photographs have been pivotal to the way we collectively know and remember war. The image of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the US flag during the Battle...
education, runaway slaves, patrollers, jayhawkers, male slave owners relations with female slaves, blacks in the Confederate army, slave quarters, parents, family separations, Civil War, Confederate Army, Union soldiers entering the South, Ku Klux Klan, and the transition from slavery to freedom.Th...