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The Exhibit at the Pry House
Bringing the Story of War to Our Doorsteps Rediscovering Alexander Gardner’s Antietam Photographs The Pry House, Antietam Battlefield October 5-December 1, 2012 “Every war begins as one war and becomes two, that watched by civilians and that fought by soldiers.” Gerald E. Linderman, Embattled Cou...
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Alexander Gardner: Pioneer Chronicler of War
"It is designed to speak for itself. As mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest." Alexander Gardner on his Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1821, Gardner was the edi...
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Attitudes Toward Death
The Impact of Photography During the American Civil War on Our National Psyche By Terry L. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Thanatology, Hood College, Frederick, MD Images are pictures. In our culture pictures have become tools used to elicit specific and planned emotional reactions in...
The Exhibit at the Pry House
Bringing the Story of War to Our Doorsteps
Rediscovering Alexander Gardner’s Antietam Photographs
The Pry House, Antietam Battlefield
October 5-December 1, 2012
“Every war begins as one war and becomes two, that watched by civilians and that fought by soldiers.”
Gerald E. Linderman, Embattled Courage, 1987, on the…
Alexander Gardner: Pioneer Chronicler of War
“It is designed to speak for itself. As mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.”
Alexander Gardner on his Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War.
Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1821, Gardner was…
The Victorian Cemetery
The Victorian Cemetery and Death in Civil War America
By June Hadden Hobbs, Ph.D., Prof. of English., Gardner-Webb University
By the beginning of the Civil War, death in America had undergone a sea change. Philippe Ariès has called the nineteenth century the “Era of the Beautiful Death…
Attitudes Toward Death
The Impact of Photography During the American Civil War on Our National Psyche
By Terry L. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology and Thanatology, Hood College, Frederick, MD
Images are pictures. In our culture pictures have become tools used to elicit specific and planned emotional reactions in the people…
