The Nation at War in Art



Old Kentucky Home (Negro Life in the South
Eastman Johnson, 1859



Terms

Recommended Websites:

U. S.-Mexican War:  PBS

A Nation Divided:  the U. S. Civil War  (The History Place)
The Civil War:  PBS
Photographs from the Civil War:  The Library of Congress
United States Civil War Center
Africans in America:  America's Journey Through Slavery
History of Slavery in the U. S.
The Amistad
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Abolitionism:  Wikipedia
John Brown
Slave Narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Aboard the Underground Railroad:  National Park Service
Dred Scott Decision
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Distorted Mirror Collection:  Stereotypes of African Americans
Jim Crow

Winslow Homer:Artcyclopedia
Winslow Homer: Artchive
Winslow Homer:  National Gallery
Winslow Homer:  Wikipedia
Winslow Homer Civil War Prints

Eastman Johnson at the National Gallery
Eastman Johnson at the Athenaeum
Eastman Johnson:  Artcyclopedia

John Rogers:  Smithsonian
John Rogers:  Artcyclopedia

Thomas Nast

Hiram Powers:  Wikipedia
Hiram Powers:  Artcyclopedia

Harriet Hosmer in the Mathew Brady Gallery
Harriet Hosmer:  Wikipedia

Edmonia Lewis: Artcyclopedia
Edmonia Lewis at the Smithsonian
Edmonia Lewis: PBS
Edmonia Lewis: Wikipedia
Edmonia Lewis: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Mathew Brady
Civil War Photographs
Mathew Brady's Portraits

Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance:  Wikipedia
Like Grass Before the Sickle (Wovoka and Wounded Knee): PBS
The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee: National Park Service
Wounded Knee Massacre

Frederick Remington:  National Gallery
Frederick Remington:  Artcyclopedia
Frederick Remington at the Athenaeum
Frederick Remington:  Artchive
Frederick Remington:  PBS

Betye Saar (the artist's website)
Beyte Saar (National Visionary Leadership Project-includes video interviews)

Robert Colescott Oral History Interview (Archives of American Art)
Robert Colescott (New York Times)