The 1850s were a time of dramatic change ... These 50 remarkable photos offer a glimpse into life as it was. Capturing everything from growing cities and frontier settlements to the faces of ...

The origin of street photography can be traced back to the 1850s with French photographer Charles Nègre. Since then, there ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

When companies wanted to build an oil tank farm across the Potomac in the 1950s, a woman named Frances Payne Bolton bought nearly 500 acres on the other side of the river. She created one of America’s ...