While many of us are more than happy to spend our days staring at photos blown up on our monitors, tweaking and editing to our heart’s desire, it takes a special sort of person willing to put that ...
The Gettysburg battlefield offers visitors a unique way to connect with history, using its enduring boulders and ...
The first photographers were on the battlefield at Gettysburg just as the armies had moved on and burial details were left with the dead. I arrived 130 years later. Our experiences were, obviously, ...
Incase you missed it last week marked the 150 th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The actual battle of Gettysburg took place in July of 1863 and was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War ...
Six years ago, amateur historian John Richter rocked the world of Civil War scholars when he downloaded a series of digital photos showing the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery on Nov. 19, ...
A new photo of Abraham Lincoln taken on the day of his historic Gettysburg Address has been discovered, Smithsonian reports. The photo depicts a crowd on the day of the speech, with Lincoln apparently ...
History is everywhere in Gettysburg. You can’t avoid it, but that’s the point. The cannons, monuments, statues, cemeteries…they’re all here as lasting reminders of courage and sorrow. And most ...