Podcast appearances and mentions of Mathew Brady

In her new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the historian and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis unpacks a major part of United States history that until now wasn't just brushed over, but was intentionally buried: how the ​​Caucasian War and the end of the Civil War were conflated by P.T. Barnum, former President Woodrow Wilson, and others to shape how we see race in America. Long overdue, The Unseen Truth is a watershed book about photography and visuality that calls to mind works by history-shaping authors such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and bell hooks. Lewis is also the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative, which strives to educate the public about the importance of art and culture for equity and justice in the U.S., and is launching a new publishing venture with Aperture this fall.On the episode, she discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass's 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of her life and The Unseen Truth; and the special ability of certain photographs to stop time.Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Sarah Lewis[04:01] The Unseen Truth[05:24] Woodrow Wilson[05:24] Frederick Douglass[05:24] P.T. Barnum[06:51] Toni Morrison[06:51] Angela Davis[06:51] Mathew Brady[51:14] Vision & Justice[11:35] Caucasus[14:02] Imam Shamil[17:38] Caucasian War[19:31] MFA Boston[19:31] The Metropolitan Museum[22:30] “Pictures and Progress”[28:41] “A Circassian”[28:41] “Slave Ship”[28:41] “The Gulf Stream”[35:13] Frances Benjamin Johnston[39:20] Jarvis Givens[39:20] Fugitive Pedagogy[44:05] The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search of Mastery[49:08] Montserrat[49:08] Under the Volcano[51:36] Aperture[52:26] Maurice Berger[52:26] Coreen Simpson[52:26] Doug Harris[52:26] Deborah Willis[52:26] Leigh Raiford[52:57] Hal Foster[56:01] Hank Willis Thomas[56:01] Theaster Gates[56:01] Mark Bradford[56:01] Amy Sherald[57:58] Wynton Marsalis[57:58] Charles Black, Jr.[57:58] Louis Armstrong[57:58] Brown v. Board of Education

Culp's Hill marked the right flank of the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg. The imposing tree and rock covered height played host to some of the most intense fighting. on July 2, 1863, Confederate forces under Richard Ewell and Edward "Alleghany" Johnson, attacked the all New York brigade of George Sears Greene. Timely Federal reinforcements from the 11th Corps, 1st Corps, and the Iron Brigade helped to save the day. On July 3, 1863, Culp's Hill was the scene of the longest sustained fighting at Gettysburg. Join Garry Adelman, Kris White, and Sarah Kay Bierle of the American Battlefield Trust as they tell the stories of Mathew Brady, William Lilly, Augustus Coble, Dwight Eisenhower, and many others. From Spangler's Spring to the summit of Culp's Hill, we will cover the right end of the Union line at Gettysburg. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/battlefields/support

In this episode from the vault, scholar Jason Lee Guthrie describes how 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, best known for his vivid battlefield scenes of the Civil War, used copyright to protect his work from infringement and legally link his name with images he believed would have enduring value. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast/

Frederick Scott Archer was an English sculptor and photographer credited with inventing the wet plate collodion process, a significant advancement in 19th-century photography. This process involved coating glass plates with a light-sensitive collodion solution, enhancing the efficiency of photography. Mathew Brady, an American photographer, is renowned as the "father of photojournalism" for documenting the American Civil War. His extensive collection of images captured the war's people and events, providing a crucial visual record. Both Archer and Brady played pivotal roles in shaping the early history of photography through their innovative techniques and impactful visual storytelling. If you enjoyed this episode please consider becoming a guest sponsor! Visit our Patreon for more details.  https://www.patreon.com/phxfilmrevival Don't forget to follow us on our socials!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 981, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Most Downloaded Rock Songs 1: Topping the list: "Radioactive" by these alt-rockers. Imagine Dragons. 2: Listeners continue to have faith in this anthem by Journey, No. 2 on the list. "Don't Stop Believin'". 3: Any way the wind blows, this operatic yet hard-rockin' tune by Queen is No. 10. "Bohemian Rhapsody". 4: No. 4 is this song by The Fray that actually is not about CPR. "How To Save A Life". 5: The title of this song from "Rocky III" came from a line of dialogue in the movie. "Eye Of The Tiger". Round 2. Category: Music For Your Cat 1: Kitty loves this 1972 Elton John song that says, "Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways". "Honky Cat". 2: Naturally, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" is Kitty's favorite track on his album "Let's Dance". David Bowie. 3: Kitty just swoons when she hears Tom Jones sing this title movie tune. "What's New Pussycat?". 4: Your cat's least favorite song? "Misty", because of the line "Look at me, I'm" this. as helpless as a kitten up a tree. 5: Your cat is not superstitious -- he loves crossing paths with her 1990 No. 1 hit "Black Cat". Janet Jackson. Round 3. Category: Eye, Eye Doctor 1: It's the transparent part of the eyeball contact lenses are designed to come into contact with. Cornea. 2: It's not the opposite of youropia, but of hyperopia. Myopia. 3: From the Greek for "gray", this condition may cause blindness by increasing pressure on the optic nerve. Glaucoma. 4: Macular degeneration affects these parts that when detached may be reattached with a laser. Retinas. 5: Toric contact lenses are designed to correct this condition when it's moderate. Astigmatism. Round 4. Category: Attention, Space Cadets 1: "Aren't you glad" Alan Shepard took this deodorant soap into space? Now it's in the Smithsonian. Dial. 2: '60s kids bought kits to send Mr. Potato Head to this heavenly body, with a cucumber as his spaceship. the Moon. 3: This candy got ahead by placing heads on its dispensers, and in 1955 "Space Trooper" was one of the first. Pez. 4: In 2005 this SW city's annual UFO Festival featured a parade with aircraft flying over it looking for alien invaders. Roswell (New Mexico). 5: Don't miss the Cosmic Pathway, a stroll through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, when visiting this NYC planetarium. the Hayden Planetarium. Round 5. Category: National Portrait Gallery 1: Gilbert Stuart's iconic paintings include one of this founding mother. Martha Washington. 2: This hunter and showman did much to popularize the myth of the American West. Buffalo Bill Cody. 3: The same year the photograph was taken, this high flyer disappeared. Amelia Earhart. 4: This Native American leader is depicted here along with a Cherokee writing system he devised. Sequoyah. 5: The portrait of this man and his bride was taken around 1863 by a photographer from Mathew Brady's studio. (General) Tom Thumb. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear "Poetry and Photography," given March 9, 2016, in partnership with Yale University. This talk includes many references to the aesthetics of photographers with whom Zucker identifies or does not identify. As accompaniment to this lecture, we offer the following list–by no means comprehensive–with links to some of these photographers' works. book review of Robert Frank's The Americans, at Lens Culture Walker Evans, at artnet Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the International Center of Photography Edward Weston, at Weston Gallery Ansel Adams, at artnet Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death at Public Domain Review The Dead of Antietam, by Mathew Brady and associates Robert Capa, at artnet Dorothea Lange, at MoMA William Eggleston at Eggleston Art Foundation Sally Mann Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 669, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 19Th Century America 1: On February 28, the first of the Forty-Niners to arrive by ship docked at this California port city. San Francisco. 2: In 1870 he published his "National Photographic Collection of War Views and Portraits....". Mathew Brady. 3: Savannah's antebellum Green-Meldrim House was built for a wealthy dealer in this "king"ly crop. Cotton. 4: On August 2, 1826 Daniel Webster delivered a eulogy on these 2 men at Faneuil Hall in Boston. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 5: Longfellow's 1858 "The Courtship of" him sold over 10,000 copies in 1 day in London. Miles Standish. Round 2. Category: Nothin' But "A"S 1: It was hard to escape from this island prison located in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz. 2: Okay, we're at $400 for the clue, $400, do I hear 6...? No, still at $400 and I'm talking like a guy at this event... sold, for $400. an auction. 3: It's a type of ant or a large mythical female warrior. an Amazon. 4: Astronomically, this first Greek letter precedes "Centauri". Alpha. 5: You could say we sent this Greek god to the Moon in 1969. Apollo. Round 3. Category: Horse Racing 1: In 1711 Queen Anne saw the potential for this racecourse; its royal enclosure still has a formal dress code. Ascot. 2: This racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs. 3: The bettor selects the first 3 finishers in the correct sequence in this type of bet also called a triple. a trifecta. 4: The name of this champion of the 1930s is a synonym for Hard Tack, his sire's name. Seabiscuit. 5: In 1977 this horse "killed" the competition by winning 6 straight races, including the Triple Crown. Seattle Slew. Round 4. Category: Harry Potter 1: Harry Potter lives in this country. England. 2: The scar on Harry's forehead is in this shape. a lightning bolt. 3: For Christmas, Harry was given his father's cloak that allows him to become this. invisible. 4: Harry's 2 best friends are Hermione Granger and this red-headed boy. Ronald Weasley. 5: A library book at Hogwarts is called this sport "Through the Ages". Quidditch. Round 5. Category: Scrambled Veeps 1: OGRE. (Al) Gore. 2: WE NAG. (Spiro) Agnew. 3: LEMON AD. (Walter) Mondale. 4: FLOCK REELER. (Nelson) Rockefeller. 5: CLAW ALE. (Henry A.) Wallace. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Bill Becker, who is the curator of  The American Museum of Photography, as well as an award-winning author, and Emmy-award winner for his writing and production work. The two discuss the importance of imagery, storytelling, and preservation through images.Related Episodes:Episode 173: Cabinet Cards of Broadway and Silver Screen StarsEpisode 167: Victorian Photo Studio SecretsLinks:American Museum of PhotographyThe Daguerreian SocietySign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:Wm. B. Becker tackled the job of establishing The American Museum of Photography™. A noted historian of photography whose research has been published in American Heritage, History of Photography: An International Quarterly, and other forums, Bill Becker is also a television producer and writer whose work has been honored with four EMMY® awards. He is the author of Brady of Broadway, a one-man play about the photographer Mathew Brady that's been performed at the Smithsonian Institution and other venues.The American Museum of Photography™ is “A Museum Without Walls…for an Art Without Boundaries.” Its predecessor, Photography's Beginnings: A Visual History, made its debut on the World Wide Web on May 25, 1996.About The MuseumThe American Museum of Photography is an award-winning Virtual Museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing great photographs with millions of visitors world-wide. The Collection includes five thousand individual images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams. About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.   She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der SpI wanted to remind you all that I run one-on-one Photo Consultations, that help identify photo clues that you may have missed, in order to help you better understand your family history. Not many people realize that the saying is true - and that a photo can tell a million stories. All sessions are recorded, and there's a discount for bulk image sessions. Find out more on my website at https://maureentaylor.com. Support the show

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 584, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: First In Our Hearts 1: The first U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio. (the Lincoln) penny. 2: The first of these in the U.S. was for a potash process and was signed by Washington and Jefferson. a patent. 3: The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was made by this Italian-American physicist in 1942. Fermi. 4: The first of these cast for a woman was Roger MacBride's, going to 1972 Libertarian V.P. candidate Theodora Nathan. an Electoral College vote. 5: Having no reeds, pipes or vibrating parts, this man's 1935 organ was the first of its kind. (Laurens) Hammond. Round 2. Category: Valentine's Day 1: On Feb. 14, 1985 the conservative Jewish movement announced its decision to accept women in this post. Rabbi. 2: He told the 20th Communist Party Congress Feb. 14, 1956 that war with capitalist imperialism was not inevitable. Nikita Khrushchev. 3: This partner of Bob Woodward was born Feb. 14, 1944 in Washington, D.C., the city that made him famous. Carl Bernstein. 4: New Mexico had been a state for almost 5 weeks when this neighbor joined the Union in 1912. Arizona. 5: A young girl received the first dual transplant of the heart and this organ Feb. 14, 1984. Liver. Round 3. Category: The Emmy Awards 1: This "Evening Shade" star joked that he was going to mount his Emmy on the hood of his Mercedes. Burt Reynolds. 2: In 1982 and 1983 the TV Academy "hailed" Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd for their roles on this sitcom. Taxi. 3: Of Marion Lorne, Agnes Moorehead or Elizabeth Montgomery, the one who won an Emmy for "Bewitched". Marion Lorne. 4: Bebe Neuwirth, a 1986 Tony winner for "Sweet Charity", won 2 Emmys for playing Lilith on this sitcom. Cheers. 5: This TV "Golden Girl" was nominated for the first "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but lost to Gertrude Berg. Betty White. Round 4. Category: Tv And Movie Robots 1: This futuristic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series featured a robot named Rosie. The Jetsons. 2: She was Rhoda, Bob Cummings' robot, on "My Living Doll". Julie Newmar. 3: He played a gunslinging robot in both "Westworld" and its sequel, "Futureworld". Yul Brynner. 4: For 3 seasons Dick Gautier played this CONTROL robot on "Get Smart". Hymie. 5: This "Forbidden Planet" robot could speak over 180 languages, drive a vehicle and make all the booze you'd like. Robby the Robot. Round 5. Category: Tool Time 1: A sharp twist of your muscle that might make a monkey out of you. a wrench. 2: If you know the correct procedure, you "know" this tool. the drill. 3: Seen here, this pair is just the thing for pounding or grinding. a mortar and pestle. 4: This volcanic material was used by primitive humans in the making of tools. obsidian. 5: The working tools of a blacksmith include a bellows, a hammer and one of these sturdy, iron hammering blocks. an anvil. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

I sit with Mike Medhurst who has been actively buying and selling antique photography for more than 35 years. He is currently the President of the Daguerreian Society and an avid collector. On this episode we discuss the pioneers of photography who would document the conflict for ages to come.More from Mike Medhurst here: https://mikemedhurst.com/default.asp?1 See my new project, The Tactical Historian:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbekCvEU7ipS5shKt9lJIhgMusic is graciously provided by Craig Duncan.Support the show:(The podcast receives monetary compensation from these options.)Make a one time donation of any amount here: https://www.paypal.me/supportuntoldCWMake a monthly payment through Patreon and get the most up to date news on the podcast! Also, if you choose the 2,3, or 4 tier, you'll be able to ask the experts questions ahead of time!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=truThis show is made possible by the support of our sponsors. Please check them out below:The Badge Maker, proudly carrying affordable, USA made products for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/Civil War Trails is the world's largest 'Open Air Museum' offering over 1,350 sites across six states. Paddle to Frederick Douglass's birthplace, follow the Gettysburg Campaign turn-by-turn in your car, or hike to mountain tops where long forgotten earthworks and artillery positions await you. Follow Civil War Trails and create some history of your own. www.civilwartrails.orgMilitary Images is America's only magazine dedicated solely to the study of portrait photographs of Civil War soldiers. In each quarterly issue of MI, readers find a mix of analysis, case studies, examinations of material culture and personal stories that offer a unique perspective on the human aspect of the Civil War.http://militaryimagesmagazine.com/The Excelsior BrigadeDealers in FINE CIVIL WAR MEMORABILIA.The goal of the "Brigade" is to offer high quality, original items while ensuring the best in service and customer satisfaction. https://www.excelsiorbrigade.com/Check us out on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube:https://www.facebook.com/untoldcivilwar/ https://www.instagram.com/untold_civil_war/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMWxSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=true)

Join Jacob as he discusses the lives and careers of Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O'Sullivan and there goal to photograph the carnage of the American Civil War! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Join Jacob as he discusses the lives and careers of Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O'Sullivan and there goal to photograph the carnage of the American Civil War! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 355, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Aussie Odds And Ends 1: In 1993 Sydney beat out Beijing by 2 votes to get to host this, 7 years later. Summer Olympic Games. 2: Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967. Aborigines. 3: Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" is set during this war. World War II. 4: Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed one of these carried off and killed her baby, was wrongly convicted of murder. Dingo (wild dog). 5: Group that had a 1982 No. 1 hit in the U.S. singing "I Come From A Land Down Under". Men At Work. Round 2. Category: Biblical Names 1: When the following song went gold, so did the chains across this composer's chest:. Isaac Hayes. 2: According to the nursery rhyme, he was born on a Monday and buried on Sunday. Solomon Grundy. 3: At this man's inaugural, Mathew Brady took the first photo of a president being sworn in. Abraham Lincoln. 4: In 1818, she "gave birth" to the world's most famous monster. Mary Shelley. 5: Pro basketball's MVP in 1979, '82, + '83. Moses Malone. Round 3. Category: Bruce Willis 1: This Bruce Willis film premiered in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center. Armageddon. 2: Little Richard performed the ceremony when Bruce married this woman. Demi Moore. 3: The title of the third film in this series starring Bruce Willis as cop John McClane added "With A Vengeance". Die Hard. 4: Bruce thanked Al Pacino and The Three Stooges when he picked up an Emmy in 1987 for his work on this TV show. Moonlighting. 5: The first feature film Bruce starred in was this dating comedy that also starred Kim Basinger. Blind Date. Round 4. Category: Famous Last Words 1: An unemployed soldier, 1821:"Josephine!". Napoleon Bonaparte. 2: A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet...". Amelia Earhart. 3: A social leader, 1965:"Let's cool it, brothers!". Malcolm X. 4: A monarch, 1603:"All my possessions for a moment of time". Queen Elizabeth I. 5: A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record". Dylan Thomas. Round 5. Category: I Write The Songs 1: He's the answer, my friend to who wrote Peter, Paul and Mary's "Blowin' In The Wind". Bob Dylan. 2: He wrote "Blinded By The Light" and "Fire", which were hits for Manfred Mann and the Pointer Sisters, respectively. Bruce Springsteen. 3: He co-wrote the songs "Copacabana" and "Could It Be Magic", but not "I Write the Songs". Barry Manilow. 4: We've got nothing but this for Otis Redding, who wrote the song, Aretha Franklin's first No. 1 hit. Respect. 5: This singer-songwriter of "Doctor My Eyes" had a highly publicized breakup with Daryl Hannah in the early '90s. Jackson Browne. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Ron Coddington of Military Images Magazine sits down with us to discuss Civil War Portrait Photography and how modern facial recognition is being used to identify faces from our Civil War past. Learn more on Military Images Magazine here: http://militaryimagesmagazine.com/Music is graciously provided by Will Wellington and Craig Duncan.This show is made possible by the support of our sponsors. Please check them out below.The Badge Maker, proudly carrying affordable, USA made products for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/Civil War Trails is the world's largest 'Open Air Museum' offering over 1,350 sites across six states. Paddle to Frederick Douglass's birthplace, follow the Gettysburg Campaign turn-by-turn in your car, or hike to mountain tops where long forgotten earthworks and artillery positions await you. Follow Civil War Trails and create some history of your own. www.civilwartrails.org Support the show:(The podcast receives monetary compensation from these options.)Make a monthly payment through Patreon and get the most up to date news on the podcast! Also, if you choose the 2,3, or 4 tier, you'll be able to ask the experts questions ahead of time!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=51151470&fan_landing=trueCheck out Gentleman's Box! Get all the tools you need as a gentleman delivered to your door! From cuff links, to cologne, to fitness gear, they have it all!http://imp.i121497.net/KaPv7You can also support us by using Instacart! Hauling groceries can be a thing of the past! Have all your groceries delivered to your doorstep. Use the link below to start an account and you will be supporting this show at no extra cost to you!https://instacart.oloiyb.net/PPVYzCheck us out on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube:https://www.facebook.com/untoldcivilwar/ https://www.instagram.com/untold_civil_war/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMWxeF5zojtN8_NeWtyULw?view_as=subscriber

Those inexpensive metal images of our ancestors appear in antique shops and online auctions in cases, paper sleeves, and without any protective covering.  Durable enough to be mailed during the Civil War they were common throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth. Anyone could afford to pose for one. They came in a variety of sizes and shapes. Tiny thumbnail gems had lovely palm-size albums so that you could collect images of family and friends. They could appear in jewelry too. Their plate sizes mimicked the dimensions of daguerreotype plates from a ninth plate of 2 x 21/2 inches to a whole plate of 6.5 x 8.5. My family collection only contains a single tintype but when I asked audiences about the types of images in their collections, most of the room raises their hands when I mention tintypes.  The word tin is a misnomer for this image format patented in 1856.  They aren't tin at all but iron.  Originally known as melainotypes or ferrotypes but tintype is the term that stuck.  In the American Tintype by Floyd and Marion Rinhart and Robert Wagner, a common expression   ‘Not on your tintype connotated a negative and persisted in popular writings until the early 1960s!   Early motion pictures were referred to as galloping tintypes.   While art historians tend to mention that tintypes reached their peak during the Civil War, that's not my experience. If anything I've seen more of them from the late nineteenth century. Here's a compilation of some common inquiries about these metal images. Were there itinerant tintypists? Absolutely. Mathew Brady had a portable studio during the Civil War.  If customers could get to the studio then photographers traveled to them with wagons, photographic train cars.  Watch for tintypes with a draped sheet as a backdrop. Sometimes you can spot the log cabin beneath it. I have a flaking tintype how should I care for it?While it's best to place tintypes in protective polyester sleeves, a flaking tintype should be stored in an acid and lignin-free envelope instead.  Tintypes scratch and rust so polyester sleeves can prevent abrasion. My tintype is very dark, is there anything that I can do?The good news is you can use a program like Vivid-Pix Restore to improve the quality of the image. Scan it at a high resolution of at least 600 dpi Tiff and upload it to your Vivid-Pix Restore program. You can play with the various settings in the program to make your pictures go from dark to brilliant. There is no information on my tintype, how can I date it?When there is no sleeve or case, you'll have to rely on clothing clues and background props for details. Clothing will help you place the image in a time frame. Related Episodes:Episode 104: Clues in Group Portraits and Photo Albums.Episode 97: So You Have a Mystery Photo? And Timeline HelpLinks:Vivid-Pix RestoreSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode we talk about Civil War photography in relation to Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner.

My mom gave me all the family photos. The earliest photo on my dad's side dates to 1895. On her side, a cousin connected with me images from that time frame as well. All the pictures came from relatives. Now imagine a serendipitous family photo find. One that you didn't expect. That's what happened to me on an ordinary day no searching required.  Photo historian William Darrah in his book Cartes de Visite mentioned that that every Civil War soldier was photographed. That statement isn't as odd as it appears. There were approximately 3,000 photographers working during the war. Many of those soldiers visited studios to send home an image of themselves. Some posed before they left home. Mathew Brady's photographers and many other photographers traveled with the troops.Do you have a photo of your Civil War ancestor? Until last week, I didn't. A number of people wrote and asked if I could talk more about finding Civil War photos. Let me know if you locate the images you're seeking.Don't forget to download the pdf that goes with this episode.Related Episodes:Episode 24: Civil War Photo SleuthEpisode 32: The Man Behind Dead FredLinks:Links mentioned in this episodeSign up for mynewsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Pageso you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View andThe Today Show(where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit,and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

When daguerreotype photography made its way to America, Mathew Brady capitalized on this burgeoning technology and changed the way the world understands violence. He was also kind of a dick with a knack for writing his name on things that weren't his! Join Max and Dorian as they explore the Civil War images that made Brady's career, as well as one of the most controversial war photos ever taken. -- Click here to read about Kenneth Jarecke's Desert Storm photography. (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/)

Scholar Jason Lee Guthrie describes how 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, best known for his vivid battlefield scenes of the Civil War, used copyright to protect his work from infringement and legally link his name with images he believed would have enduring value.

Have you ever heard of Mathew Brady? Join me today, as we look into his life and his photographs… to know what the Civil War really looked like. Show Notes:https://ancestralfindings.com/mathew-brady-photographing-civil-war/  Listen via: - https://ancestralfindings.com/youtube  - https://ancestralfindings.com/itunes  Weekly Giveaways:- https://ancestralfindings.com/drawing  Free eBooks:- https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks   Hard To Find Surnames:- https://ancestralfindings.com/surnames

He understands the psychology of war matters, and he is intent on trying to get the war over as quickly as possible. We continue our series on Great Captains with a look at William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the more controversial figures in the Civil War due to his actions in the South during the latter stages. A brilliant leader who understood well the impact that war has on soldiers and societies, Sherman was credited by Liddell-Hart as being the first "modern" general. But as the architect of a brutal campaign that severly weakened the Confederacy, Sherman also invoked fear and anger from enemies and friends alike. War College professors Jacqueline E. Whitt and Andrew A. Hill take a close look at Sherman and his legacy and one of histories Great Captains.   Jacqueline E. Whitt is Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army War College and Andrew A. Hill is the Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College. The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, or Department of Defense. Photo: Cropped portrait of William T. Sherman by Mathew Brady, listed as between 1865 and 1880. Digitally enhanced from original negative. Photo Credit:  Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection, Library of Congress (public domain)

“I had to go, a spirit in my feet said go and I went” Mathew B. BradyWelcome to the Outerfocus Podcast!This week we grace you with a full episode of Ian Weldon and Bradley Hanson. With no guest this week we delve into a conversation about photography. We hear what ‘originally’ motivated us in terms of starting out photography careers and what that motivation eventually led us to today and why. We also discuss a little about how we, and others shoot and why, including autofocus, manual shooting and more, and who could forget Bradleys book section!History of photography shines a light on Mathew B. Brady, known to be one of the earliest photographers in American History, and was best known for his Civil War coverage. We discuss Bradys career and entrepreneurial approach, including how he hired approximately 22 photographers; and the ‘celebrities’ he photographed including Abraham Lincoln. Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Bradyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_de_visiteHost Links:https://www.outerfocuspodcast.cominfo@outerfocuspodcast.comBradley Hansonhttps://www.bradleyhanson.comhttps://www.facebook.com/bradleyhansonphotographyhttps://www.instagram.com/bradleyhansonphotography/https://twitter.com/bradleyhansonIan Weldonhttp://ianweldon.comhttps://www.instagram.com/not_wedding_photography/https://www.facebook.com/Ian-Weldon-Photography-124854627581367/Books:

Welcome back to The Emancipation Podcast Station - the place to hear about history researched and retold through the eyes of Middle school and HS students. Last time on the show…   Today we discuss the causes of the Civil War. Let’s dive in.   Abe Lincoln - Do your own research here - ALSO your next essay Ricky- I read Bill O'reilly’s book on Lincoln and his assassination so this should be fun. Lincoln was a man of his word, and After he signed the emancipation proclamation he was called an ape because of his giant ears and beard and because of the south’s/confederate pro slavery additude. Abraham lincoln was born on February 12th 1809 in the town of Hodgenville Kentucky. In his early years he lived in a cabin and became a lawyer in his adult life. In the last episode we covered the lincoln debates so that was obviously a part of his life. Ethan- Abe Lincoln was the 16th president. He served in office from 1861-1865 when he was assassinated. He was 1 of the main political leaders during the Civil War. Most likely because he was the president at the time but who cares? He saved the Union from Civil War. He self-taught himself many things because he was too far away from a school and if I remember correctly he was too poor as well. He was the first Republican president Ben -He was a politically important member of the Whig party, then whigs switched to Republican in 1854. He was the first republican president, too. He died on April 15, 1865. (56 yrs old) Thomas Lincoln watched his father died, and had to run and eventually got to his family in Kentucky. Hunter- what I am surprised about is no one has mentioned that Abe Lincoln was assassinated and who ever wrote the notes above mine the date is on the dot. Oh wait… Ethan wrote that he was assassinated well ok… I have to say Abe Lincoln you lived an exciting last few years of your life I have major respect for you ✌ Believe It! (heheh naruto memes) the fact that he pretty much taught himself most everything he knew and the same as Andrew Jackson he pretty much started with nothing and worked his way up in the ranks and even won the Civil war. Gabe - Lincoln was a dedicated man he lost when he went to challenge stevens for a spot in the senate but most people saw him increasing his chance to become president later on also competing with stevens. - Blake - Abraham Lincoln was an interesting man most people focus on his presidency but I will focus on before then. Lincoln was born into a one room log cabin in Illinois. His mother had died when he was young so he was raised for awhile by his dad while his mother was alive she was able to teach Lincoln to read sadly after her death his father saw no reason to teach him to read. Lincoln had been taught unknowingly by his father the gift of speech and how to use speech to convey a meaning. - skylar -  E-mailed this to mrs. barnes.   Slavery and the Missouri Compromise   Skylar - People in free states were worried about slavery because if they wanted to move West there would more than likely not be any land for them to buy because rich slave owners bought it all. You cannot compete with free labor. Even if there was land for you to buy you would probably have to purchase a few slaves to even compete with the rich slave holders. If you were paying people to work you’d be making pretty much nothing off your crops when slave holders could take in all the profit they make because they don’t have to pay them to work. In 1860 the most valuable thing you could own was slaves. The slave holders didn’t want a new state like Missouri to become a free state because all their money was tied up in slavery, once your surrounded by free states chances are your state will soon become free too. -Ethan- The North basically against slavery and were worried about the South’s greed blinding them to what was right. The North was also worried that is they moved west they wouldn’t be able to get land that a rich slave owner had or they wouldn’t be able to compete with them. This happened to Lincoln’s father once, when he moved to Indiana he couldn’t find land, and then moved to Illinois. So in turn the South was worried about a new state becoming free because the North would gain power and might vote to outlaw slavery. - Blake - There sure is a lot of slavery topics i’m basically repeating information anyways let’s get started. Slavery was a hard topic to talk about as it was huge to the economy it couldn’t be all stopped at once. A person who was against slavery had trouble competing because land in the north just wasn’t really farmable and the parts that was useable was taken. Ben- Like we talked about last time when the US got more land (which was happening a lot at that time) it had to decide if it’s free or a slave state. I think all these debates about that subject was stirred on by the Louisiana purchase. And like skylar said, since the labor was practically free if you owned a slave, it was almost an infinite supply of money if they had a lot of slaves. Hunter- oh boy… we are back on this topic. Guess who’s back back back, back again gain gain, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, back again. Yep that is right we are back on slavery. Like everyone has probably stated: slavery was a big thing in the economy and ending slavery was pretty much destroying the economy. Now the Missouri Compromise was congress trying to make Missouri permit slavery back in late 1819 at the time the U.S. contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Gabe - the missouri compromise was made so that when missouri became a state The south wanted it to be a slave state so they didnt in the future lose everything They had been working for because all those plantations with slaves if states Started becoming free states so would there state and economy would crash in a Way because of all the slaves working to the economy Ricky: Well everyone seems to have taken most topics so I’ll talk about Henry clay. Henry clay was the “architect” of the missouri compromise. The missouri compromise was practically built by Henry clay and the compromise was “If we give you missouri, then we get main as a free state.     Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s   Skylar - As the United States grow and develop the higher tension became between the slave states as well as the free states. The slave states wanted them to become slave states and the free states wanted them to become free states. It would mean more free work if they became slave states, but as a free state they couldn’t compete with the states with slaves and the free work. Even if your anti-slavery or an abolitionist you still had to partake in slavery, if you see a slave escape its your job to bring them back to their owner, or you could get fined. -Ethan- Some of these debates were made by Henry Clay who was also known as The Great Compromiser, was the maker of the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act was also a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act ticked off many people up North because it said that if someone saw an escaped slave they had to help get it back to whatever plantation they were on, or like Skylar said they would be fined. The Whigs were basically destroyed by the compromise and before they were destroyed They nominated Lincoln for president as their last blow to slavery. - Blake - Again more repeated information. Slavery was becoming more and more a problem especially after the Fugitive Slave act that made people who were against slavery directly involved in it. The stress of all the debates of slavery eventually became too much and it all collapsed under pressure. Ben- Compromises weren’t really perfect at the time though, they still made both sides angry, but both equally angry. And with the fugitive slave act it just kept holding these people back from trying to stop slavery. (also I’ve been thinking, if you were blind and a slave ran by your house, would you be fined for not catching them since you can’t see?) Gabe - in the mid 1800s there were HUGE fights against slavery and antislavery Literal fights and political fights over slavery or not one time a senator in kansas Killed because he didn't believe in slavery kansas was named bleeding kansas Because of this and many other states fought too. Hunter- Like Gabe said in the mid 1800’s there were many battles fought whether it was political debates or physical fighting. And they were all based on slavery whether slavery will stay in ‘America or go and this is was sparked the Civil war but we will get to in in a minute. ricky-Slavery was a big, big,BIG, argument in both families, and states and everything was just a big, big, BIG mess. Families were torn apart and the united states were split into two general parties, pro-slavery, and anti-slavery(abolitionists)   Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter   Skylar - The South was worried that when Lincoln takes office he would ban slavery, their whole economy was based off slavery and their free labor. If slavery was banned everyone would become poor especially in the south. This caused the south to secede from the Union, these states include South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas. They formed what they called the Confederate States of America. It was basically the same as the Union, nearly the same constitution, although it states that there will be slavery. I bet they felt pretty stupid when Lincoln says in his speech that he didn’t plan on outlawing slavery, just not moving it further West. Lincoln offered that they could come back and everything would go back to normal, but they decline, they want to make sure slavery will never end. -Ethan- Lincoln was kind of the last ingredient for the Civil War in some people’s eyes. The Republican party was very anti-slavery and when Lincoln was elected, the South felt vulnerable to just about anything near slavery getting banned. Dominoes kept falling over until the Civil War was on top of us. - Blake - This was the last straw with Abraham Lincoln being elected the south couldn’t take it so they succeeded and created The Confederate States of America. They elected Jefferson Davis as their president. Fort Sumter was the key starting point of the Civil War as it was basically where the first battle happened originally it was owned by the union until the south succeeded and took it over. Ben- And the reason Lincoln hated slavery was because growing up his father was a farmer that didn’t own any slaves, so he had to compete with the slave-owning farmers. Which was almost impossible at the time. Gabe - i heard most white slave owners in the south owned one or two slaves and they secede from the north because they didn’t like the states rights and they disapproved of the tariffs Hunter- The reason why the civil war started was because of the south and the north having bit of a disagreement whether or not that slavery should stay or not. The president Abraham Lincoln and the north was against slavery however the south on the other hand thought that if Abe Lincoln banned slavery it would destroy the economy and here we are many years after the war the economy is running just fine. So the south kind of were in the wrong the whole time and didn’t even know it during the war. Nowadays that would have been an empty statement. Ricky- Fort sumter is a Fort in Charleston South Carolina. The Fort is on an Island with only one bridge connected to the mainland. From the looks of it, it was fairly easy to take over. All the Confederate would need to do is to take over the bridge and then clean up whatever was left.   Strategy of the Civil War   Skylar - Each side had around 30,000 troops each. They met fairly close to Washington, D.C. to begin war, This was called the Battle of Bull Run also known as the Battle of Manassas. People brought picnic’s and wanted to watch this battle for entertainment but this was the exact opposite of entertaining around 800 people died that day and it was the most deadly battle in American history to ever happen.  It was a Confederate Victory, which isn’t very surprising to me because southern people are crazy. -Ethan- The Union was kind of like we’re going to push them down and keep them down until they can overrun the South. The Battle of Manassas/Bull Run was during the July of 1861. And Skylar, just 800 people didn’t die, each side lost 800 people. Lincoln was desperate to match the South’s leadership strategy, so he got a Democrat named George (correct me if I spell this wrong) McClellan. And he shared some differing views from Lincoln’s ideals and thought we should just let the South go. Most of the population in the South is slave and that was about 4 million people out of 9 million. But the north outnumbers them since they have close to 22 million people. The North had many railroads too which helped them move stuff. The North had more numbers than the South so they essentially tried to block them in. While the South thought that the could if their blocking them in in then they would know the battleground the best.   Gabe   Ben- The south did very well in the beginning, even though the north had some advantages like railroads, and just the number of soldiers they had was greater. The south had good defense, they were prepared for the north. And the south had the great generals and leaders, people like Robert E. Lee and others. - Blake - As the Union lost the first war which came as a surprise we have to think of the strategy and the military knowledge by the Confederacy they had general Robert E. Lee and other amazing generals and military leaders. Of course what really motivated people in the south to join the ranks was they didn’t want battles on their front lawn. Although later in the war the Union gained momentum and started to win more as they realized their strategy and the best choke points.            6.Hunter- I’m pretty sure that everyone has written down their strategy ethan’s thought on the strat is basically the beginning the strats got more and more complex like most wars. What this is is both sides trying to learn more about the enemy and their forces.      7.ricky-the goal, as ethan said, was to push them down, but the ultimate goal was to take over the southern coast cutting them off from both the world, and exports. This caused bread riots in the confederate states. Early phases of Civil War and Antietam -Ethan- While elected in 1860, he didn’t get inaugurated until 1861. Now after that the Battle of Fort Sumter took place was kind of the beginning of the Civil War. I mean McClellan was worried about losing troops, so LIncoln was kind of ticked and thinking that we’re just giving the South more time to strategize. Lee thinks that he did very well in Virginia, he should take his troops up North to Maryland. This is where he meets with McClellan at Antietam. hehehehheehEHheheheheheheheheehehhehehehehehehehehhflufffy chickens Gabe - basically at antietam they were both at a draw against each others for The whole time just back orth till lee withdrew back giving lincoln the         “victory” He needed. Ben- Bull Run was a really big battle in the civil war, but it was not the most deadly battle in US history. On the topic of Antietam, the Battle of Antietam was the deadliest day of any battle on US soil. Killing over 3,000 people in a single 24 hours.(actually ben gettysburg was costliest - Blake - The battle of Antietam was gruesome it was the most deaths in one day in american history which is really saying something. But this made people realize especially after a man named Mathew Brady sent his photographer out to take pictures of the battlefield, this made people realize the what war really meant sure if either side had lost bad things would have happened but even worse would have happened the loss of innocent lives. Skylar - The South (confederates) did very good in the first year of battle, after that the North started to take over and started winning the majority of the battles, a very deadly and bloody day was the Battle of Antietam, This was the deadliest war that went on for only 24 hours and killed around 2,100 Union soldiers, wounded 9,550 and around 750 went missing. 1,550 Confederate soldiers were killed, 7,750 were wounded, and 1,020 were missing. Ricky-   The Emancipation Proclamation   -Ethan- The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1862 by Abe, and issued on the 1st of January 1863. Before it was issued some of his advisors were just thinking it would make things weird with the slave states still in the Union. The Proclamation was basically just ending slavery in the South. The Proclamation was kind of like we’re going to give a few months to rejoin the Union. When they didn’t and they signed it, it said they couldn’t keep people from being free. Gabe - the emancipation proclamation was basically a way for abraham lincoln stop slavery and end the slavery feud and that became the excuse as the south secede for slavery but it wasn't as i said earlier   Ben- Before this, the war was just between the north and the south, the south didn’t really see it as a war to end slavery. But after the Emancipation Proclamation everyone decided. This was gonna be a war to end slavery.   - Blake - Here is our podcast namesake. Basically it was an order given by president Lincoln saying that if you come back now we’ll let slavery slide for awhile. But this attempt failed and so January 1st of 1863 it was illegal to hold slaves in states outside of the Union. Skylar - The Emancipation Proclamation, said, “ I have been called to free all slaves in territories still at war with the Union.”. Although it didn’t even slavery at all. Lincoln was not anti-slavery at all. He didn’t like it but he didn’t think he had enough power to just end it once and for all. Lincoln said that the Confederate States join back before January 1st, 1863, that he wouldn’t ban slavery for the time being, but the South said no, if they would’ve said yes, the Civil War probably wouldn’t have killed as many people as it did. The Emancipation proclamation was issued five days after the battle of Antietam in September 22, 1862.   Significance of the battle of Antietam -Ethan- The battle of Antietam took place on September 17th, 1862. It was the most violent battle in American history. A little over 4000 people died then. It was also a pretty big win for the Union and Lincoln and after this victory he had enough power to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, I know normally he would be able to do that no questions asked, but with the South separating he didn’t have enough power where it mattered. This allowed slaves to separate without question.   Gabe - Antietam was one of the bloodiest battles in the civil war because they just fought back and forth as i said earlier none stop basically just losing men till the other team lost more.   Ben- And Europe was on the south’s side at this time, because most of their economy was based off the cotton plantations of the south, the Battle of Antietam didn’t just affect America.   - Blake - Early on in the war it had looked as though the United Kingdom would help the south in this war however this changed as the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become widely popular. English merchants had also foreseen this coming so they had stocked up a pretty big supply of cotton which would prove to be a problem for the South. Hunter- This was a very violent battle a lot of people died so that the slaves could be free and live normal life instead of being enslaved. Even though some slaves were taken in and treated as family there were still thousands of deaths which I think was irrational. But back then that’s just what  had to be done for the slaves to gain freedom and the same rights as the everyone else. Skylar - Lincoln really needed the North to win this battle so he could put out the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he had to win a battle to put it out, but because he needed confidence. This battle was very deadly and killed over 4,000 people both from the south and from the north. The Battle of Antietam was not just a battle in the Civil War but a battle to end slavery. It wasn’t just the confederates and the union who were involved, but as well as other countries. Ricky- to evaluate what skylar said, the Union won but it wasn’t because of that that lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation. Lincoln issued a preliminary warning that if that if the rebellion hadn’t stopped by January 1st he would stop slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation. And then the confederate states attacked Sharpsburg, Maryland and the battle of Antietam was started. That’s all we have time for today. Thanks for joining us in this emancipation from the box, that is learning.

Welcome back to The Emancipation Podcast Station - the place to hear about history researched and retold through the eyes of Middle school and HS students. Last time on the show…   Today we discuss the causes of the Civil War. Let’s dive in.   Abe Lincoln - Do your own research here - ALSO your next essay Ricky- I read Bill O'reilly’s book on Lincoln and his assassination so this should be fun. Lincoln was a man of his word, and After he signed the emancipation proclamation he was called an ape because of his giant ears and beard and because of the south’s/confederate pro slavery additude. Abraham lincoln was born on February 12th 1809 in the town of Hodgenville Kentucky. In his early years he lived in a cabin and became a lawyer in his adult life. In the last episode we covered the lincoln debates so that was obviously a part of his life. Ethan- Abe Lincoln was the 16th president. He served in office from 1861-1865 when he was assassinated. He was 1 of the main political leaders during the Civil War. Most likely because he was the president at the time but who cares? He saved the Union from Civil War. He self-taught himself many things because he was too far away from a school and if I remember correctly he was too poor as well. He was the first Republican president Ben -He was a politically important member of the Whig party, then whigs switched to Republican in 1854. He was the first republican president, too. He died on April 15, 1865. (56 yrs old) Thomas Lincoln watched his father died, and had to run and eventually got to his family in Kentucky. Hunter- what I am surprised about is no one has mentioned that Abe Lincoln was assassinated and who ever wrote the notes above mine the date is on the dot. Oh wait… Ethan wrote that he was assassinated well ok… I have to say Abe Lincoln you lived an exciting last few years of your life I have major respect for you ✌ Believe It! (heheh naruto memes) the fact that he pretty much taught himself most everything he knew and the same as Andrew Jackson he pretty much started with nothing and worked his way up in the ranks and even won the Civil war. Gabe - Lincoln was a dedicated man he lost when he went to challenge stevens for a spot in the senate but most people saw him increasing his chance to become president later on also competing with stevens. - Blake - Abraham Lincoln was an interesting man most people focus on his presidency but I will focus on before then. Lincoln was born into a one room log cabin in Illinois. His mother had died when he was young so he was raised for awhile by his dad while his mother was alive she was able to teach Lincoln to read sadly after her death his father saw no reason to teach him to read. Lincoln had been taught unknowingly by his father the gift of speech and how to use speech to convey a meaning. - skylar -  E-mailed this to mrs. barnes.   Slavery and the Missouri Compromise   Skylar - People in free states were worried about slavery because if they wanted to move West there would more than likely not be any land for them to buy because rich slave owners bought it all. You cannot compete with free labor. Even if there was land for you to buy you would probably have to purchase a few slaves to even compete with the rich slave holders. If you were paying people to work you’d be making pretty much nothing off your crops when slave holders could take in all the profit they make because they don’t have to pay them to work. In 1860 the most valuable thing you could own was slaves. The slave holders didn’t want a new state like Missouri to become a free state because all their money was tied up in slavery, once your surrounded by free states chances are your state will soon become free too. -Ethan- The North basically against slavery and were worried about the South’s greed blinding them to what was right. The North was also worried that is they moved west they wouldn’t be able to get land that a rich slave owner had or they wouldn’t be able to compete with them. This happened to Lincoln’s father once, when he moved to Indiana he couldn’t find land, and then moved to Illinois. So in turn the South was worried about a new state becoming free because the North would gain power and might vote to outlaw slavery. - Blake - There sure is a lot of slavery topics i’m basically repeating information anyways let’s get started. Slavery was a hard topic to talk about as it was huge to the economy it couldn’t be all stopped at once. A person who was against slavery had trouble competing because land in the north just wasn’t really farmable and the parts that was useable was taken. Ben- Like we talked about last time when the US got more land (which was happening a lot at that time) it had to decide if it’s free or a slave state. I think all these debates about that subject was stirred on by the Louisiana purchase. And like skylar said, since the labor was practically free if you owned a slave, it was almost an infinite supply of money if they had a lot of slaves. Hunter- oh boy… we are back on this topic. Guess who’s back back back, back again gain gain, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, back again. Yep that is right we are back on slavery. Like everyone has probably stated: slavery was a big thing in the economy and ending slavery was pretty much destroying the economy. Now the Missouri Compromise was congress trying to make Missouri permit slavery back in late 1819 at the time the U.S. contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Gabe - the missouri compromise was made so that when missouri became a state The south wanted it to be a slave state so they didnt in the future lose everything They had been working for because all those plantations with slaves if states Started becoming free states so would there state and economy would crash in a Way because of all the slaves working to the economy Ricky: Well everyone seems to have taken most topics so I’ll talk about Henry clay. Henry clay was the “architect” of the missouri compromise. The missouri compromise was practically built by Henry clay and the compromise was “If we give you missouri, then we get main as a free state.     Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s   Skylar - As the United States grow and develop the higher tension became between the slave states as well as the free states. The slave states wanted them to become slave states and the free states wanted them to become free states. It would mean more free work if they became slave states, but as a free state they couldn’t compete with the states with slaves and the free work. Even if your anti-slavery or an abolitionist you still had to partake in slavery, if you see a slave escape its your job to bring them back to their owner, or you could get fined. -Ethan- Some of these debates were made by Henry Clay who was also known as The Great Compromiser, was the maker of the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act was also a part of the Compromise of 1850. This act ticked off many people up North because it said that if someone saw an escaped slave they had to help get it back to whatever plantation they were on, or like Skylar said they would be fined. The Whigs were basically destroyed by the compromise and before they were destroyed They nominated Lincoln for president as their last blow to slavery. - Blake - Again more repeated information. Slavery was becoming more and more a problem especially after the Fugitive Slave act that made people who were against slavery directly involved in it. The stress of all the debates of slavery eventually became too much and it all collapsed under pressure. Ben- Compromises weren’t really perfect at the time though, they still made both sides angry, but both equally angry. And with the fugitive slave act it just kept holding these people back from trying to stop slavery. (also I’ve been thinking, if you were blind and a slave ran by your house, would you be fined for not catching them since you can’t see?) Gabe - in the mid 1800s there were HUGE fights against slavery and antislavery Literal fights and political fights over slavery or not one time a senator in kansas Killed because he didn't believe in slavery kansas was named bleeding kansas Because of this and many other states fought too. Hunter- Like Gabe said in the mid 1800’s there were many battles fought whether it was political debates or physical fighting. And they were all based on slavery whether slavery will stay in ‘America or go and this is was sparked the Civil war but we will get to in in a minute. ricky-Slavery was a big, big,BIG, argument in both families, and states and everything was just a big, big, BIG mess. Families were torn apart and the united states were split into two general parties, pro-slavery, and anti-slavery(abolitionists)   Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter   Skylar - The South was worried that when Lincoln takes office he would ban slavery, their whole economy was based off slavery and their free labor. If slavery was banned everyone would become poor especially in the south. This caused the south to secede from the Union, these states include South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas. They formed what they called the Confederate States of America. It was basically the same as the Union, nearly the same constitution, although it states that there will be slavery. I bet they felt pretty stupid when Lincoln says in his speech that he didn’t plan on outlawing slavery, just not moving it further West. Lincoln offered that they could come back and everything would go back to normal, but they decline, they want to make sure slavery will never end. -Ethan- Lincoln was kind of the last ingredient for the Civil War in some people’s eyes. The Republican party was very anti-slavery and when Lincoln was elected, the South felt vulnerable to just about anything near slavery getting banned. Dominoes kept falling over until the Civil War was on top of us. - Blake - This was the last straw with Abraham Lincoln being elected the south couldn’t take it so they succeeded and created The Confederate States of America. They elected Jefferson Davis as their president. Fort Sumter was the key starting point of the Civil War as it was basically where the first battle happened originally it was owned by the union until the south succeeded and took it over. Ben- And the reason Lincoln hated slavery was because growing up his father was a farmer that didn’t own any slaves, so he had to compete with the slave-owning farmers. Which was almost impossible at the time. Gabe - i heard most white slave owners in the south owned one or two slaves and they secede from the north because they didn’t like the states rights and they disapproved of the tariffs Hunter- The reason why the civil war started was because of the south and the north having bit of a disagreement whether or not that slavery should stay or not. The president Abraham Lincoln and the north was against slavery however the south on the other hand thought that if Abe Lincoln banned slavery it would destroy the economy and here we are many years after the war the economy is running just fine. So the south kind of were in the wrong the whole time and didn’t even know it during the war. Nowadays that would have been an empty statement. Ricky- Fort sumter is a Fort in Charleston South Carolina. The Fort is on an Island with only one bridge connected to the mainland. From the looks of it, it was fairly easy to take over. All the Confederate would need to do is to take over the bridge and then clean up whatever was left.   Strategy of the Civil War   Skylar - Each side had around 30,000 troops each. They met fairly close to Washington, D.C. to begin war, This was called the Battle of Bull Run also known as the Battle of Manassas. People brought picnic’s and wanted to watch this battle for entertainment but this was the exact opposite of entertaining around 800 people died that day and it was the most deadly battle in American history to ever happen.  It was a Confederate Victory, which isn’t very surprising to me because southern people are crazy. -Ethan- The Union was kind of like we’re going to push them down and keep them down until they can overrun the South. The Battle of Manassas/Bull Run was during the July of 1861. And Skylar, just 800 people didn’t die, each side lost 800 people. Lincoln was desperate to match the South’s leadership strategy, so he got a Democrat named George (correct me if I spell this wrong) McClellan. And he shared some differing views from Lincoln’s ideals and thought we should just let the South go. Most of the population in the South is slave and that was about 4 million people out of 9 million. But the north outnumbers them since they have close to 22 million people. The North had many railroads too which helped them move stuff. The North had more numbers than the South so they essentially tried to block them in. While the South thought that the could if their blocking them in in then they would know the battleground the best.   Gabe   Ben- The south did very well in the beginning, even though the north had some advantages like railroads, and just the number of soldiers they had was greater. The south had good defense, they were prepared for the north. And the south had the great generals and leaders, people like Robert E. Lee and others. - Blake - As the Union lost the first war which came as a surprise we have to think of the strategy and the military knowledge by the Confederacy they had general Robert E. Lee and other amazing generals and military leaders. Of course what really motivated people in the south to join the ranks was they didn’t want battles on their front lawn. Although later in the war the Union gained momentum and started to win more as they realized their strategy and the best choke points.            6.Hunter- I’m pretty sure that everyone has written down their strategy ethan’s thought on the strat is basically the beginning the strats got more and more complex like most wars. What this is is both sides trying to learn more about the enemy and their forces.      7.ricky-the goal, as ethan said, was to push them down, but the ultimate goal was to take over the southern coast cutting them off from both the world, and exports. This caused bread riots in the confederate states. Early phases of Civil War and Antietam -Ethan- While elected in 1860, he didn’t get inaugurated until 1861. Now after that the Battle of Fort Sumter took place was kind of the beginning of the Civil War. I mean McClellan was worried about losing troops, so LIncoln was kind of ticked and thinking that we’re just giving the South more time to strategize. Lee thinks that he did very well in Virginia, he should take his troops up North to Maryland. This is where he meets with McClellan at Antietam. hehehehheehEHheheheheheheheheehehhehehehehehehehehhflufffy chickens Gabe - basically at antietam they were both at a draw against each others for The whole time just back orth till lee withdrew back giving lincoln the         “victory” He needed. Ben- Bull Run was a really big battle in the civil war, but it was not the most deadly battle in US history. On the topic of Antietam, the Battle of Antietam was the deadliest day of any battle on US soil. Killing over 3,000 people in a single 24 hours.(actually ben gettysburg was costliest - Blake - The battle of Antietam was gruesome it was the most deaths in one day in american history which is really saying something. But this made people realize especially after a man named Mathew Brady sent his photographer out to take pictures of the battlefield, this made people realize the what war really meant sure if either side had lost bad things would have happened but even worse would have happened the loss of innocent lives. Skylar - The South (confederates) did very good in the first year of battle, after that the North started to take over and started winning the majority of the battles, a very deadly and bloody day was the Battle of Antietam, This was the deadliest war that went on for only 24 hours and killed around 2,100 Union soldiers, wounded 9,550 and around 750 went missing. 1,550 Confederate soldiers were killed, 7,750 were wounded, and 1,020 were missing. Ricky-   The Emancipation Proclamation   -Ethan- The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1862 by Abe, and issued on the 1st of January 1863. Before it was issued some of his advisors were just thinking it would make things weird with the slave states still in the Union. The Proclamation was basically just ending slavery in the South. The Proclamation was kind of like we’re going to give a few months to rejoin the Union. When they didn’t and they signed it, it said they couldn’t keep people from being free. Gabe - the emancipation proclamation was basically a way for abraham lincoln stop slavery and end the slavery feud and that became the excuse as the south secede for slavery but it wasn't as i said earlier   Ben- Before this, the war was just between the north and the south, the south didn’t really see it as a war to end slavery. But after the Emancipation Proclamation everyone decided. This was gonna be a war to end slavery.   - Blake - Here is our podcast namesake. Basically it was an order given by president Lincoln saying that if you come back now we’ll let slavery slide for awhile. But this attempt failed and so January 1st of 1863 it was illegal to hold slaves in states outside of the Union. Skylar - The Emancipation Proclamation, said, “ I have been called to free all slaves in territories still at war with the Union.”. Although it didn’t even slavery at all. Lincoln was not anti-slavery at all. He didn’t like it but he didn’t think he had enough power to just end it once and for all. Lincoln said that the Confederate States join back before January 1st, 1863, that he wouldn’t ban slavery for the time being, but the South said no, if they would’ve said yes, the Civil War probably wouldn’t have killed as many people as it did. The Emancipation proclamation was issued five days after the battle of Antietam in September 22, 1862.   Significance of the battle of Antietam -Ethan- The battle of Antietam took place on September 17th, 1862. It was the most violent battle in American history. A little over 4000 people died then. It was also a pretty big win for the Union and Lincoln and after this victory he had enough power to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, I know normally he would be able to do that no questions asked, but with the South separating he didn’t have enough power where it mattered. This allowed slaves to separate without question.   Gabe - Antietam was one of the bloodiest battles in the civil war because they just fought back and forth as i said earlier none stop basically just losing men till the other team lost more.   Ben- And Europe was on the south’s side at this time, because most of their economy was based off the cotton plantations of the south, the Battle of Antietam didn’t just affect America.   - Blake - Early on in the war it had looked as though the United Kingdom would help the south in this war however this changed as the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become widely popular. English merchants had also foreseen this coming so they had stocked up a pretty big supply of cotton which would prove to be a problem for the South. Hunter- This was a very violent battle a lot of people died so that the slaves could be free and live normal life instead of being enslaved. Even though some slaves were taken in and treated as family there were still thousands of deaths which I think was irrational. But back then that’s just what  had to be done for the slaves to gain freedom and the same rights as the everyone else. Skylar - Lincoln really needed the North to win this battle so he could put out the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he had to win a battle to put it out, but because he needed confidence. This battle was very deadly and killed over 4,000 people both from the south and from the north. The Battle of Antietam was not just a battle in the Civil War but a battle to end slavery. It wasn’t just the confederates and the union who were involved, but as well as other countries. Ricky- to evaluate what skylar said, the Union won but it wasn’t because of that that lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation. Lincoln issued a preliminary warning that if that if the rebellion hadn’t stopped by January 1st he would stop slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation. And then the confederate states attacked Sharpsburg, Maryland and the battle of Antietam was started. That’s all we have time for today. Thanks for joining us in this emancipation from the box, that is learning.

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We’re taking you back to a world that seems especially foreign today – a world with no selfie sticks, no tens of billions of photographs taken every day from digital screens, a world where the photograph was a rare, special and beautiful thing. New York City plays a very interesting role in the development of photography. While the medium was not invented here, many of its earliest American practitioners were trained here. In particular, the students of Samuel Morse (better known for the telegraph) became masters of the daguerreotype portrait in the early 1840s. The first space photography was taken from the rooftop of New York University. Broadway was known across the country for its dozens of daguerreotypists and their lavishly appointed galleries. But the greatest of them all was Mathew Brady who, from his famous Broadway studio, focused on capturing the images of the world's most famous people -- from Abraham Lincoln to Barnum favorite Tom Thumb. You may know Brady from his Civil War photography, bringing a dose of realism into the parlors of sheltered New Yorkers. One particular gallery show in 1862 called The Dead of Antietam would shake the city and set the stage for the invention of photojournalism. Support the show.

Photo by Mathew Brady, Library of Congress. A special episode of Stories for you today! As we’ve mentioned, we have a new podcast in which Steve Gilly and Gena Gilly tell stories of the history of not just Appalachia, but all of America, and beyond. I wanted to give those of you who subscribe to […]

This week, we wrestle with whether or not you can be an artist, without locking your own self worth/self image to your art. What does it mean to live a creative life anyway? We weigh in on the firing of the photo staff by the Chicago Sun Times. Plus, we look at two Civil War era photographers, Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as our Photographers of the Week.

This week, we wrestle with whether or not you can be an artist, without locking your own self worth/self image to your art. What does it mean to live a creative life anyway? We weigh in on the firing of the photo staff by the Chicago Sun Times. Plus, we look at two Civil War era photographers, Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as our Photographers of the Week.

Photography curator Frank Goodyear discusses an 1858 portrait of John Pelham by Mathew Brady.