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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Nonfiction Author Series returns this winter with four rousing real-life adventures: a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish ...

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 ...