Where a camera creates images without sympathy, illustrators brought politics and opinions — often formed in the field — to bear on their work. One illustrator, Frank Vizetelly, who came to sympathize ...

As seen through a child's eyes, the Civil War began when a Confederate general commandeered the family farm in Manassas, Va., for his headquarters and soldiers, wagons and cannons filled her father's ...

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. -- Addy Walker is a 10-year-old African-American, born a slave, living around the time of the Civil War. After escaping from a plantation with her mother, she adapts to a new life as ...

Stark contrast repeats itself over and over again in Kara Walker's exhibit at the Fogg Museum at Harvard. Large lithographs hang in bold, black splashes to interrupt sterile whitewashed walls. The ...

To fans, he is known as “the premier historical artist in America.” But even if you don’t recognize his name, you have probably seen and appreciated his colorful, highly detailed and historically ...

In the mid-1860s, a young artist sat in his uncle’s home in Belmont, depicting the battlefield scenes he had witnessed over the past several years as an illustrator embedded with Northern troops in ...

As Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette sailed into Alabama in 1825, a Creek Nation chieftain stood on the banks of the Chattahoochee River and led his people in a welcoming cry. Lafayette, ...

Acclaimed historian Shelby Foote insisted that any true understanding of American history, and thus of America, must be rooted in an understanding of the Civil War. For Foote and scores of history ...