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 ...

“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.