Without the benefit of photography, the Revolutionary War can be difficult to envision. But what did the war actually look like?

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

Texans who long to see Union and Confederacy paraphernalia and other relics of a long-gone era should head to White ...

Artist Mitchel Coffman has been creating "war-themed art" for nearly a decade. But the personal stories behind the pieces are ...

While the 58-foot-long bronze sculpture in Washington D.C. will now be the country's foremost World War I memorial, it is far ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

The Post-War & Contemporary Art Department offers blue-chip works by the most renowned international artists from 1945 to the present day. Our team has deep knowledge of the art market and expertise ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

Civil War—writer-director Alex Garland's dystopian look at a fractured future America starring Kirsten Dunst—is new on Max this week. A24 released Civil War in theaters on April 12.