WASHINGTON (AP) — A Houston housewife who has quietly collected rare Civil War images for 50 years has sold more than 500 early photographs to the Library of Congress. The library announced the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Born a slave in Kentucky, Nathan Hughes escaped to Illinois, enlisted in the state's only African-American regiment in the Civil War and was seriously wounded in a famous ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading ...

The photographs taken by masters such as Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner have done much for the public’s perception of the Civil War. But all of their work is in black and white. The battlefield of ...