At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... Usually it took two to three weeks for the drawn image to appear in print, although important events or battles could ...

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) challenges visual documentation that excluded Black subjects from a ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...