This tender photograph captures a moment that millions of families would never get back.An unidentified Union soldier sits proudly with...

This haunting mourning locket tells a story repeated in millions of American homes. Inside is a lock of hair from...

This haunting photograph captures one of the war’s most heartbreaking realities — a young girl, dressed in mourning, clutching a...

A doffer boy’s primary duty in 19th and early 20th-century textile mills was to remove full bobbins or spindles of...

Child shrimp pickers in early 20th-century American canneries, particularly on the Gulf Coast, worked long hours breaking heads off, cleaning,...

Picking cotton as a family unit was extremely common in the rural South, especially from the late 19th century through...

In 1864, 13-year-old Robert McGee was traveling with settlers along the Platte River when a band of Sioux warriors launched...

The beautiful image above is of an Easter Egg Hunt in San Augustine, Texas in the 1930’s. Those children were...