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January 15, 2026
Death of Mathew Brady
On January 15, 1896, America lost one of its most influential visual storytellers—Mathew Brady. Known as the father of American war photography, Brady brought the distant battlefields of the Civil War into the public eye, using his camera to reveal the real cost of conflict in a way words never could.
