At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... created some of his most celebrated paintings from sketches he made as an illustrator at the front. During the Peninsular ...

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

a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish prisoners; the ominous day-by-day countdown to the opening shots of the 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 ...

Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. The Historic Tredegar's permanent exhibit is "A People's ...