Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

THE UNION IMAGE: Popular Prints of the Civil War North By Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold Holzer University of North Carolina Press, 266 pages, $45 One-hundred thirty-five years ago, on Sunday, April ...

From the Civil War to my own childhood in Louisiana in the 1950s and 1960s, to the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, one thing is clear: MAGA politics does not confine itself to the voting booth.

“Civil War,” Alex Garland’s divisive new action flick, borrows iconography—and actual footage—from the America of today as set dressing for a hypothetical, fractured future.

WASHINGTON — The largest and most dramatic paintings in “The Civil War and American Art” exhibit don’t have anything particularly warlike in them — no cannons or gun smoke or ...