The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew Brady’s photography gallery.

Today, we're terrified that photographs have been manipulated by AI. Before that it was deepfakes, and Photoshop, and predating that we worried that images had been airbrushed. But images have ...

A photograph and a speech changed the course of American history on this day in 1860. In a studio in New York City, aspiring presidential candidate Abe Lincoln stood for a portrait to prove he wasn't, ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil War. While he did not take every photograph of the ... sitters were President Lincoln and his secretaries, John ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered ... had based his Lincoln on a profile photograph made in 1864 by Mathew Brady, himself an immigrant from ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...