At the time of the Civil War ... were America’s first pictorial war correspondents. They were young men (none were women) from diverse backgrounds—soldiers, engineers, lithographers and ...

Collections at the Smithsonian contain poignant artwork depicting a soldier's life from around the world. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum holds many of American artist Winslow Homer's ...

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) challenges visual documentation that excluded Black subjects from a ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved ... Through his ministrations of wounded soldiers, he found that purpose and a new inspiration for his art.

In this blog post, Jabour explores the multitude of women who dressed as men to fight—and die—in all the major battles of the Civil War. 'I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil ...

Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army ...