By Marcy E. Zimmer Sometimes a face reveals a hidden story. At first glance, this portrait of an older gentleman and his wife leaves an impression of a simple and
By Rick Brown and Ronald S. Coddington You never know what will turn up in an abandoned storage unit. In a June 2022 auction, Josh O’Keefe placed the winning bid
Confederate military history is deeply rooted in the fertile soil and rolling hills of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. John Hunt Morgan and Basil Duke are buried here, and it is where
By Mark Savolis and Ronald S. Coddington, featuring images from Mark’s collection At Fredericksburg, a wave of Massachusetts volunteers charged towards Confederates entrenched along a stone wall on the crest
By Dione Longley and Buck Zaidel A crowd burst into enthusiastic and sustained applause when President Abraham Lincoln entered the grand hall of the Baltimore Sanitary Fair on the evening
By Joe Bauman and Ronald S. Coddington British warships and transports anchored off New Haven, a key port in the colony of Connecticut, on July 4, 1779. Aboard the vessels
Curated by Michael Huston and featuring portraits from the image collecting community Introduced by Robert Welch I am always moved by their faces. As these men and boys stare back at
By Laura Elliott Honor. Duty. Acts of kindness. Extending benevolence to soldiers on the opposite side. Incidents reflecting these noble traits were documented by the men who performed them, by
By Ronald S. Coddington and Nicholas Penachio, with images from the authors’ collections What if the Civil War had been the short affair many Americans initially believed? Imagine Bull Run
By Mike Fitzpatrick Late in his life in the spring of 1929, Union veteran and retired school principal John Davis Billings received a letter from Lucy Bowen, a young woman
