ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S craggy ... The first great photographer, Matthew Brady, portrayed Lincoln many times in the course of the Civil War, and generations of schoolboys have studied Brady’s ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters ... be rushed into print in a matter of days. The journal claimed to be strictly neutral, and within months of President Lincoln’s election in ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil ... the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...