Photographer John Coffer lives a simple, rural life and takes portraits with a giant, ox-drawn camera. Now his old-fashioned pictures grab the attention of big-city swells. By Alison Strahan.

There are many misconceptions about why people in photographs from the Civil War era aren’t smiling. Maybe the photo took too long to take, maybe the people were bored or maybe it was their bad ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

Minstrel shows popular at the outbreak of the Civil War are often remembered for their role in perpetrating stereotypes about African Americans through blackface -- but for Mark Jessee, minstrel ...