The American Art Museum’s exhibition “The Civil War and American Art” shows how American artists and the broader public wrestled with a war that fractured a country’s young identity.

The largest and most dramatic paintings in "The Civil War and American Art" don't have anything particularly warlike in them, no cannons or gun smoke or bayonets glistening in the morning sun.

For students of the American Civil War, it’s hard to imagine a better classroom this summer than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two sterling exhibitions there, one entirely devoted to ...

American Civil War, War of 1812 and more. Through his work, Troiani has also supported American Rifleman’s efforts to shed light on historical arms, and his art has appeared in many American ...

However, he also served in the Union Army and several of his works were included in a 2012-13 Smithsonian exhibit, “The Civil War and American Art,” which spent several months at the ...

Image courtesy of the National Museum of American History ... but Daniel was very happy to hear it. Civil War soldiers and their families had abundant causes for worry. The men were exposed ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

Rarely displayed paintings of Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War by a Confederate ... "He had only a genealogical connection to the American South, but when the war broke out he felt so ...

However, he also served in the Union Army and several of his works were included in a 2012-13 Smithsonian exhibit, “The Civil War and American Art,” which spent several months at the ...