At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to ... created some of his most celebrated paintings from sketches he made as an illustrator at the front. During the Peninsular ...

Martin Johnson Heade painted the enigmatic “Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay” in the wake of the American Civil War.

The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...

a brazen billion-dollar art theft; a gutsy woman who tricked the Nazis into releasing thousands of Polish prisoners; the ominous day-by-day countdown to the opening shots of the Civil War ...