President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for ...

The Becket Arts Center is offering an illustrated talk on Civil War-era art and an herbal medicine workshop. David Davison will present “Skirmish in the Wilderness: Winslow Homer and American Artists ...

The Civil War lingers ... Published in the print edition of the April 28, 2025, issue, with the headline “A Time to Kill.” William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism ...

The footage includes significant episodes from the 1916 Rising, the Civil War and the War of Independence, as well as the 1963 visit of American President ... of ancient art treasures, this ...

In the years leading up to the Civil War ... Military Art and Science, which became the standard textbook on strategy for cadets at West Point. In this work, Halleck argued that American soldiers ...

Photograph Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history.

The Civil War was one of the darkest periods in American history ... These newsrooms would then print their daily newspapers, which helped keep those in larger cities informed about the war.

The Nonfiction Author Series returns this winter with four rousing real-life adventures: a brazen billion-dollar art ... of the Civil War; and the wartime bond between two iconic American heroes.

Among Hobel’s special offerings is a course on the “art of invisibility”—also ... Most experts think that another full-scale American civil war is highly unlikely in the near term.

Kara Walker: Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborought to Atlanta, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated ... Museum of American Art and The Museum Box ...

The Yale University Art Gallery’s first exhibit of the academic season features over a hundred post-Civil War artworks. Yet ... The exhibit — “The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art ...