He Held Her, Then He Went to War This tender photograph captures a moment that millions of families would never get back.An unidentified Union soldier sits proudly with... Read More →
A Mother’s Silent Grief: The Empty Chair That Never Filled This haunting mourning locket tells a story repeated in millions of American homes. Inside is a lock of hair from... Read More →
The Children Left Behind: Faces of Loss in the Civil War This haunting photograph captures one of the war’s most heartbreaking realities — a young girl, dressed in mourning, clutching a... Read More →
Barefoot is Best A doffer boy’s primary duty in 19th and early 20th-century textile mills was to remove full bobbins or spindles of... Read More →
A 3 Year Old Isn’t Too Young to Work Child shrimp pickers in early 20th-century American canneries, particularly on the Gulf Coast, worked long hours breaking heads off, cleaning,... Read More →
Yes, We Picked Cotton, Lots of Cotton Picking cotton as a family unit was extremely common in the rural South, especially from the late 19th century through... Read More →
Scalped Alive at 13: The Brutal Reality of Frontier Raids In 1864, 13-year-old Robert McGee was traveling with settlers along the Platte River when a band of Sioux warriors launched... Read More →
The Quiet Killer That Wiped Out Families The beautiful image above is of an Easter Egg Hunt in San Augustine, Texas in the 1930’s. Those children were... Read More →