At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... created some of his most celebrated paintings from sketches he made as an illustrator at the front. During the Peninsular ...

Martin Johnson Heade painted the enigmatic “Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay” in the wake of the American Civil War.

But after the Civil War, he argues, a new class of industrial ... To prove it, Portrait of America has six paintings from the Pepsi-Cola contest, ads for Kaywoodie pipes (each with a pipe smoker ...

The film is a comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War ... a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings, lithographs, and headlines, were ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called ...

Author William Styple talked about the childhood of artist James Kelly, who would go on to interview dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war to understand their war and depict it in art. The ...

weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. The Historic Tredegar's permanent exhibit is "A People's Contest: Struggles for Nation and Freedom in Civil War America," which ...