How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...
Every picture tells a story, and presidential portraits help tell vital ones, not only about the man portrayed ... portraits in the 19th and much of the 20th century. The most iconic ...
click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age ... supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question ...