What you’ll learn to do: analyze, interpret, and compare photographs as primary sources
In this course, you have worked with printed sources – journals, newspapers, books, etc. – as primary sources. Now it is time to use your historical skills on a different type of primary source: photographs. In this section, you’ll learn about the development of photography and its growth and impact during the Civil War.
Candela Citations
CC licensed content, Original
- Historical Hack: Civil War Photographs. Authored by: Megan Coplen for Lumen Learning. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution
Public domain content
- Abraham Lincoln at Antietam. Provided by: Library of Congress. Located at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g10198/. License: Public Domain: No Known Copyright