The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively, bringing shocking and often horrific images to the front pages and into people's living rooms. Photography ...

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There were about 55,000 physicians in the United States at the start of the Civil War ... MD overhauled the American military medical system. The war provided a vast resource of unusual wounds ...

Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

Come along with American History TV to museums and historic ... War and how … Historian Barbara Gannon talked about how Civil War photographs brought the horrors of the battlefront to Americans ...

But it wasn't until Mathew Brady, known as the father of photojournalism, and his employee, Andrew Gardner, began shooting pictures of dead American soldiers on Civil War battlefields that the ...