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In 1861, Mathew Brady spent his entire fortune to bring cameras to the battlefield. The photographs he and his team produced showed Americans the true face of war for the first time — and changed history.
May 9, 2026
In 1930, Lewis Hine climbed to the top of the world's tallest building under construction. The ironworkers he photographed — many of them Mohawk men from Canada — had no safety nets and no hesitation. Hine had neither, either.
May 9, 2026
May 3, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Police dogs and fire hoses turned on peaceful marchers. The photographs moved a president — and produced the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
May 2, 2026
A pea-picker's camp in California, 1936. One photograph by Dorothea Lange triggered the fastest government emergency relief in American history.
May 1, 2026
A cotton mill in North Carolina, 1908. One photograph by Lewis Hine took 30 years to complete America's child labor law — but it got there.
Apr 30, 2026
Spring 1888, a narrow alley off Mulberry Street, New York. Jacob Riis took 'Bandit's Roost.' Thirteen years later, that single photograph produced America's first tenement law.
Apr 29, 2026
In 1890, a newspaper reporter walked into the New York slums with a camera. The photographs shook America's conscience. The birth of photojournalism.
Apr 28, 2026