Research Rabbit Hole: The Man Who Changed Photography
A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, June 14, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 11, begins in London...
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Research Rabbit Hole: Memorial Day at Arlington
A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday afternoon, May 31, at 3 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 10, marks Memorial Day...
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Research Rabbit Hole: Backdrop Business
A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, May 3, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 9, is focused on backdrops,...
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Research Rabbit Hole: Inside an Iron Brigade Pension
A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, April 19, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 8, is focused on a soldier...
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Research Rabbit Hole: Posing 101
A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, April 5, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 7, provides answers to...
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A Savior of the Capitol
Benjamin Franklin Watson, a New Hampshire native who settled in Lowell, Mass., before the war, served in the 6th Massachusetts Infantry when the regiment...
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Drummers: A Gallery
A gallery of images collected in collaboration with Editor Dale Niesen of the Facebook group “The Image Collector” and contributions by collectors,...
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Why Do Photographs Fade?
Concern about the yellowing and fading of albumen prints is almost as old albumen paper itself. Invented in 1850, it made the mass production of photographs...
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Not a Forty-Eighter
Social unrest in Germany during the mid-19th century ended in a nasty military crackdown that resulted in a wave of German immigration to the U.S. One...
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Case Number 16
Respected Lt. John Sandford Williams of the 3rd Delaware Infantry found himself in a tough situation at the Battle of Hatcher’s Run. A fellow officer...
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