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Recording the War

April 01, 2015

Mr. Preston Lewis, former director of the Office of Communications, and Prof. Tina Doyle from the Department of Communications spoke to an audience at the C. J. Davidson Center on the topics of journalism and photography during the Civil War era. Mr. Lewis discussed several important developments and individuals that helped record events of the war while Prof. Doyle explained the technological advances made in photography as well as the challenges that photographers faced during the period.