At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow ... Davis later described what it took to be a war artist: “Total disregard for personal safety and comfort; an owl-like propensity ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s an open secret that much of the greatest art and literature of the twentieth century came ... in 1937 to protest fascist atrocities during the Spanish Civil War. There is nothing glamorous about ...