The Shadow and the Substance: Civil War Photography

Speaker: Elizabeth Bischof, Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Maine; Recorded October 10, 2013 - Photography was still in its infancy during the Civil War, but it was artfully employed as a new and powerful tool to tell the story of the battlefields and beyond. University of Southern Maine history professor Libby Bischof delivers a presentation about the impact of this new technology on American perception of war and death.