At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... Engravers then carved different sections of the drawing, the most experienced of them working on detailed figures and complex ...

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 ...

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 Battle of Nashville” is one of six Civil War paintings that hang in the Governor’s reception room at the Capitol. Pease, who has studied the Capitol’s art for decades, counts “The B ...

She is the co­author of First ­Hand and co­-curator of the Becker Collection, a private archive of Civil War drawings that is currently touring the United States (2012-­2016). Together with Richard ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia. “I wonder why nobody has noticed this outbreak until now?” ...