Artistry in Photography by Helen S. Schwartz
Artistry in Photography
by Helen S. Schwartz
“Do the spirits of the dead cling to Battlefields long after the war is done? Does their energy linger in the bloodied ground and marred trees and stay even when the earth heals the scars with new growth? Helen Schwartz thinks so….” Bucks County Courier Times interview, April 19, 2006
Schwartz specializes in historical landscape photography, presently focusing primarily on the American Civil War and the American Revolution. She supports preservation of our National Parks , State Parks and Historic Sites. She hopes her work will move people visually and emotionally and inspire them to visit and support preservation of sites for future generations. Says Schwartz, “When we visit and walk 'our history,’ we honor those who came before and learn about ourselves as well.”
Visit www.artistryinphotography.com to see her photo galleries and information about her three Civil War-related photo essay books from her travels.
The most recent book is a photo tour of the Union ironclad U.S.S. Cairo, which is displayed in Vicksburg, Miss. In his foreword, National Park Service Chief Historian Emeritus Edwin C. Bearss wrote, “…The quality of this publication belies the words I used in the title to my 1966 history of the ironclad referencing it as a Hardluck Ironclad….”
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments