The University of Alabama, Civil War, and slavery; examining the role of architecture as historical marker
Seeing america – topic: Antebellum America Civil War and Reconstruction
The natural world and political metaphor, Church's Cotopaxi
Science, religion, and politics:
Church’s Cotopaxi
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
Thomas Nast's cartoon urges its viewers to confront white supremacy.
Nast and Reconstruction: understanding a political cartoon
Sail, steam, cotton, and oil — the engines of the American economy.
Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
How women contributed to the repairing a country that had been torn apart.
Lilly Martin Spencer, The Home of the ...
Before TV and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.
Face to face with the Missouri voters
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
Though at first glance this nude seems plucked from classical antiquity, it actually alludes to modern politics.
A nude in Victorian America
Johnson paints a courageous African-American family fleeing slavery.
The Civil War, liberty front and center
This remarkable work honors those who fought for their own freedom, but acknowledges that the struggle goes on.
John Quincy Adams Ward, The Freedman
Painted for a divided US, people from North and South could identify with this image—others remain marginalized.
War News from Mexico
Shrady’s sneaky self-portrait within this sculpture took on tragic connotations after the monument claimed his life.
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