Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of ...

When he visited New York in February 1860 to deliver at the Cooper Union the most important speech of his life to date, Lincoln also went to Mathew Brady’s studio for a portrait. The resulting ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.