This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

The outbreak of a civil war in Sudan in April 2023 dealt a devastating blow to the country's art scene, which has recently ...

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

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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 ...

Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ...