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Resurrection Men: Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the Federal City, Part 1

Author's and Editor's Note:  To go along with our latest book club read, STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, we would like to share a few stories of life and death in D.C. prior to the age of people choosing to donate their bodies to science.  Body snatching may conjure [...]

By |2023-09-22T18:49:29-04:00September 22nd, 2023|Blog, History|Comments Off on Resurrection Men: Body Snatching and Grave Robbing in the Federal City, Part 1

Mathew Brady: The Father of Photojournalism

In the middle of July, 1863, a small group of men busily moved across the sweeping terrain of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the men gazed towards a small hill known as Little Round Top, likely battling the sweltering heat as he focused and consulted his notes. Just a few weeks before, Little Round Top was [...]

By |2022-05-18T21:22:53-04:00May 17th, 2022|History|Comments Off on Mathew Brady: The Father of Photojournalism
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