The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

At the time of the Civil War ... those in the North who opposed the war effort and sought negotiated peace with the Confederacy. By 1864, coverage of the Union victories by the special artists ...

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO WROTE ‘BEN-HUR: A TALE OF CHRIST': UNION GENERAL LEW WALLACE But ... the burning of Atlanta inspired the beloved Civil War fictional epic "Gone With the Wind." ...

heralded the victory of the Union and Republican President Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many ...