The University of Alabama, Civil War, and slavery; examining the role of architecture as historical marker Slavery at the West Point of the ... by Dr. Hilary N. Green and Dr. Steven Zucker
The natural world and political metaphor, Church's Cotopaxi Science, religion, and politics: Church’s Cotopaxi by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Perhaps the largest relief sculpture in the world, this Confederate memorial is an expression of 20th and 21st century racial politics. The Long History of Stone Mountain, Georgia by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
Homer wrote that the sharpshooter's role was "as near to murder as anything I can think of." The U.S. Civil War, sharpshooters and Winslow ... by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Sarah Alvarez
A conversation that took place on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, just before the last Confederate monument on the boulevard was removed in September 2021 Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause by Dr. Sarah Beetham and Dr. Steven Zucker
One of the most famous landscape photographs showing the horrible aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg: Timothy O’Sullivan’s ... by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Dr. Steven Zucker
Thomas Nast's cartoon urges its viewers to confront white supremacy. Nast and Reconstruction: understanding a political cartoon by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Dr. Beth Harris
Sail, steam, cotton, and oil — the engines of the American economy. Cotton, oil, and the economics of history by Dr. Peter John Brownlee, Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art and Dr. Beth Harris
How women contributed to the repairing a country that had been torn apart. Lilly Martin Spencer, The Home of the ... by Taylor L. Poulin and Dr. Beth Harris
Before TV and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face. Face to face with the Missouri voters by Emily Jennings, Director of School and Family Programs, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Steven Zucker
The makers of this ostentatious ceramic jug used images from popular satire to poke fun at the Civil War politics. Snakes, petticoats, and Civil War politics by Dr. Alex Bortolot, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Dr. Beth Harris
Though at first glance this nude seems plucked from classical antiquity, it actually alludes to modern politics. A nude in Victorian America by Dr. Bryan Zygmont
Johnson paints a courageous African-American family fleeing slavery. The Civil War, liberty front and center by Scott Mestan and Dr. Bryan Zygmont
This remarkable work honors those who fought for their own freedom, but acknowledges that the struggle goes on. John Quincy Adams Ward, The Freedman by Erin Long, Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris
Painted for a divided US, people from North and South could identify with this image—others remain marginalized. War News from Mexico by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Thomas Folland
Shrady’s sneaky self-portrait within this sculpture took on tragic connotations after the monument claimed his life. Shrady and Casey, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial by Julia Langley