Mathew Brady: Civil War photographer

Out of Virginia's attics, voices from the past
Article | Salvaged from dusty basements and attics, scrawled on timeworn paper that has been folded and refolded, the long-silent voices emerge:

A less-than-monumental city
Article | On the cool autumn Tuesday that Abraham Lincoln would be elected president, the Washington Evening Star reprinted on its front page a dispatch from a British reporter covering a recent visit by the prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.

Letters to Lincoln
Article | Chillocothe Ohio April 2nd 1861 Hon. Abraham Lincoln

With a note and a name, researcher may have identified Civil War soldier
Article | The lock of blond hair was probably clipped when the soldier was a child, tied in a knot and placed with the photo of him as a little boy, along with a note written years later by his stricken parent.

Where they were then
Article | The military architect of the Union's triumph In 1860, he was a 38-year-old West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican War, but he had resigned from the Army six years before, lonely, depressed and alcoholic. A failed farmer who had once built a house called Hardscrabble, he had lately sold...

Press reaction to Lincoln's win
Article | Thursday, Nov. 8, 1860 WHOOP-EE President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN