ebooks Beyond the Crusades: Christianity's Lies; Laws and Legacy by Michael Paulkovich in History

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A fresh and surprising look at the American Civil War through pinhole camera photographs of sesquicentennial battlefield reenactments In 2011; Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles―from the First Manassas; Antietam; and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg; Vicksburg; and Appomattox. But rather than shooting these historic re-creations in high-definition; Falco opted for a different; older medium: a pinhole camera. This antebellum photographic technology; shot from an on-the-ground perspective; captures these battlefields in a way that feels more “real” and fully realized than even the famous daguerrotypes made during the war itself. In Falco's transporting photographs; the smoke-filled battle reenactments become blurred and dreamlike; echoing the sentiments found in the actual letters and journals of soldiers who fought and died there. Throughout; historical photographs from the period offer context to the modern-day re-creations; showing just how much―or how little―has changed on this hallowed ground. One hundred and fifty years after the last soldier fell; Echoes of the Civil War provides beautiful and compelling evidence of a Civil War landscape that is; literally and metaphorically; still with us. 150 color photographs